U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of the District of Columbia Court rose to prominence as a legal foe of President Donald Trump’s and is now in charge of a pivotal case involving Elon Musk’s DOGE.
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AfederaljudgePresidentDonaldTrumponcedescribedas“themostevilperson”isnowhearingalawsuitbroughtbybluestatestostoptheDepartmentofGovernmentEfficiency(DOGE)fromaccessinggovernmentdata.
Firstnamedtothebenchin2013bythen-PresidentBarackObama,U.S.DistrictJudgeTanyaChutkanoftheDistrictofColumbiaCourtrosetonotorietyin2021,whenshepresidedoverthecriminalinvestigationintoTrump’sallegedeffortstooverturntheresultsofthe2020election.Though,herroleMondaycenteredonwhetherbillionaireElonMusk’sDOGEshouldbeblockedfromaccessinggovernmentdataorfiringfederalemployees.
Chutkanisalongtimelegalfoeofthecurrentpresident–atleast,ifheractionsfromhermorethan10yearsonthebenchareanyindication.
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In2021,ChutkanrejectedTr
