Lawsuit alleging Trump 'tried to disenfranchise Black voters' handed to Judge Chutkan: report

Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who issued a partial gag order against ex-President Donald Trump Monday in the Washington, D.C. criminal case over his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, will now preside over another case against the 2024 MAGA hopeful, Democracy Docket reports.

Democracy Docket announced reassignment of the case filed in 2020 via X (formerly Twitter), writing, "NEW: A lawsuit alleging that Donald Trump, his campaign and the RNC tried to disenfranchise Black voters during the 2020 election has been reassigned to Judge Tanya Chutkan, the same judge in Trump's DC election subversion case.

Newsweek obtained a court document Tuesday that said Chutkan, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, was reassigned the case October 6, "taking over for [President Joe] Biden appointee Judge Ana Reyes, her colleague in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia."

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The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization filed the suit, which states, "Plaintiffs and their constituents have suffered dignitary injuries by having their full citizenship undermined and by Defendants' perpetuation of the noxious myth that votes cast in communities with large Black populations are more likely to be fraudulent," according to Newsweek.

In a press release, Democracy Docket notes, "On Nov. 28, 2022, a trial court issued an order that allowed the plaintiffs to amend their complaint and held that Trump is not absolutely immune. Trump appealed the Nov. 28 order to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Litigation is ongoing."

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Newsweek's full report is available at this link.