Chutkan has raged about the January 6th, claiming protesters, “soiled and defaced the halls of the Capitol and showed their contempt for the rule of law,” though her comments on Black Lives Matter were far more subdued.

The D.C. judge called BLM rioters “people protesting, mostly peacefully, for civil rights,” referring to the widespread chaos and destruction in the summer of 2020 as: “People gathered all over the country last year to protest the violent murder by the police of an unarmed man.”