She does NOT think lightly of the Nation’s Capitol attacks on that day……..
The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is far from ancient history and still inflicts pain and trauma on the police officers and congressional employees who lived through it, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said Friday as she sentenced a member of the pro-Trump mob.
“The effects of that day are still being felt,” Chutkan said before sentencing defendant Spencer Offman to 30 days in prison for breaching the building during the riot.
Chutkan used Friday’s sentencing in the relatively routine Jan. 6 case to make a case against complacency about the danger that the attack posed to democracy, characterizing it as a “violent attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power” in which rioters were “desecrating the center of our government.”
Chutkan, who is also presiding over Donald Trump’s federal criminal case in Washington stemming from his efforts to subvert the 2020 election — culminating in the Jan. 6 violence — didn’t mention the former president in her remarks or give any hint as to how she will handle the case following the Supreme Court’s ruling that Trump is immune from prosecution for some of the events in question….
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“Everybody who went into that building,” she said, “knew they weren’t supposed to be in there.”…..