A federal judge in Washington rejected Donald Trump’s request to strike language from the federal election-obstruction indictment that refers to the violence at the US Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by his supporters.
In a three-page opinion, US District Judge Tanya Chutkan found that Trump failed to show that the text of the charging document was likely to prejudice the future jury, since she didn’t intend to give them a copy of the indictment. The jury selection process would also allow the judge and lawyers on both sides to screen potential jurors influenced by pretrial publicity, she wrote.
