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Former President Donald Trump 's legal team filed a motion seeking the recusal of the judge assigned to his 2020 election subversion case in Washington D.C. The motion refers to two sentencing hearings overseen by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan .
Trump 's lawyers argue that her previous statements about Trump indicate her bias.
But legal experts say that the motion is "very unlikely to succeed" because it was not filed in a timely manner.
To the extent that there is a strategy here, there's always the hope that the judge might say something impolitic in response to the motion that would give you an independent basis for recusal, but I suspect the aims are mostly political." Read more about Trump 's entanglement with the law.
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