Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith's team wrote in a court filing late Thursday that there was “no valid basis” for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself. Ms. Chutkan added that she did not “make charging decisions” and had no “influence on that”. Ms. Chutkan did not say, prosecutors wrote, that Mr. Trump was legally or morally to blame for the events of Jan 6 or that he deserved to be punished. The defendant cannot meet this heavy burden.” Mr. Trump's motion is unlikely to succeed given the high standard for recusal. A similar effort to seek the recusal of a judge in a separate New York prosecution he faces was unsuccessful.

Source: The Hindu September 16, 2023 00:11 UTC