“Judge Tanya Chutkan “is the only federal judge in Washington, D.C., who has sentenced Jan. 6 defendants to sentences longer than the government had requested.”
What PolitiFact found
Data shows that Judge Tanya Chutkan has been more likely to give harsher sentences to Jan. 6 defendants than other judges. But she is not the only judge who has issued sentences harsher than prosecutors requested.
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In short
Jack Posobiec (Conservative Activist) made this claim around 1 August 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 3 August 2023, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Jack Posobiec has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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