Federal Judge Issues Multiple Orders in Trump Election Case

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s election case in Washington has issued a number of orders this week.

After the U.S. Supreme Court formally sent the case back to Judge Tanya Chutkan last month, she now has to determine how to proceed further. There was a roughly seven-month pause in the case as the former president appealed the matter, arguing that he should be declared immune from prosecution.

On Aug. 6, Chutkan issued eight orders denying several third-party submissions from anonymous parties who sought the ability to file under the Crime Victims Relief Act (CVRA), according to the court docket.
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“They do not establish that they qualify as ‘victim’ under the CVRA’s statutory definition,” Chutkan wrote in one of her orders. “Consequently, the victim’s rights enumerated” in the act “do not attach,” and “the court is not persuaded that it is appropriate to depart from the ordinary course and permit this filing,” she wrote.

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