District Judge Tanya Chutkan

Every day we are hearing about reports of antidemocratic factions, people plotting potential violence in 2024, it has to be made clear that trying to stop the peaceful transition of power, assaulting law enforcement, is going to be met with certain punishment. Not staying at home, not watching Netflix, not doing what you were doing before you got arrested.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan

I wonder if the people who are usually before me.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan

Mr. Smocks, from the safety of his hotel room, had the nerve to call people trying to defend the Capitol that day' cowards,' he had the audacity to call the rioters' patriots.'.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan

Mr. Smocks now seeks to somehow compare himself and drape himself in the mantle of civil rights. I, for one, find that offensive, people died fighting for civil rights.

District Judge Tanya Chutkan