Trump asks judge to recuse herself from federal election subversion case

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🗓️ 12 September 2023

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Former President Trump has asked Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself from the federal 2020 election subversion case. In a new court filing, Trump pointed to Chutkan’s previous comments made in cases involving January 6 rioters. Former federal judge Nancy Gertner tells Anderson Cooper the former president’s request is “not surprising.” Plus, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who testified before the grand jury in the Georgia investigation, joins AC360 to discuss whether he supports the longshot legal strategy of using the Fourteenth Amendment to bar the former president from the 2024 ballot. In recent weeks, a growing number of liberal and conservative legal scholars have embraced the idea.

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360 Breaking News, new push by the former president to get the judge in
0:05.7	his January 6 trial off the case in his warning that the public won't accept the outcome
0:10.0	otherwise.
0:11.0	Also, a search for survivors on the heels of one natural disaster, the earthquake in
0:15.0	Morocco, and tracking potential another hurricane Lee heading toward the east coast.
0:20.6	Plus, more than a week since he broke out of prison, how has an escape killer managed
0:24.6	to elude capture for so long?
0:27.5	Good evening, we begin tonight with Breaking News, the former president calling on
0:30.4	federal judge Tanya Chutkin to queues herself from his case, that an availed warning from
0:35.4	his attorneys who say in their request, quote, only if this trial is administered by a judge
0:39.8	who appears entirely impartial, could the public ever accept the outcome as justice?
0:44.7	That's one of the federal cases against him.
0:46.4	There's also breaking news in the Georgia case where Trump and his attorneys have just
0:50.2	filed a motion to have the entire indictment thrown out, seen as Paul Reed joins us with
0:54.6	more on that.
0:55.6	So let's talk about Trump's request for the judge in the federal case first to
0:58.4	recuse herself.
0:59.4	Well, Anderson, Judge Tanya Chutkin was randomly assigned to oversee the Trump election
1:04.6	subversion case.
1:06.1	She was appointed by former president Obama, she's spent on the bench for about a decade,
1:10.4	and she's made her opinions and her views on the Capitol attack pretty clear as she's
1:15.2	overseeing multiple trials of rioters.
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