Federal judge rejects comparisons between Capitol insurrection and racial justice unrest
CNN
A federal judge rejected comparisons between the January 6 Capitol insurrection and civil unrest that at times accompanied racial-equity protests during a sentencing for a Capitol rioter on Monday, just days after a judge in the same court had questioned the difference.
"To compare the actions of people around the country protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights, to a violent mob seeking to overthrow the lawfully elected government is a false equivalency and downplays the very real danger that the crowd on January 6 posed to our democracy," DC District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan said.
Chutkan added that the rioters "soiled and defaced the halls of the Capitol and showed their contempt for the rule of law." She said: "The country is watching to see what the consequences are for something that has not ever happened in the country before."
The judge who oversaw Donald Trump’s criminal hush money trial in New York on Friday informed the former president’s defense team and prosecutors with the Manhattan district attorney’s office that a comment was posted on the New York State Unified Court Systems’ public Facebook page last week by a poster who claimed to be a cousin of a juror, saying that Trump would be convicted.