The judge assigned to former President Trump’s multiple indictments stemming from his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election is the scion of a family of revolutionary Marxists in her native Jamaica.
Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, an Obama appointee, is the granddaughter of Frank Hill, a Jamaican communist revolutionary, who along with his brother Ken were briefly jailed by the island’s British governor during World War II over suspicions of “subversive activities.”
Hill is the father of Noelle Hill, Judge Chutkan’s mother, public records show.
Frank, along with his brother Ken Hill, and fellow comrades Richard Hart and Arthur Henry, were expelled from the People’s National Party of Jamaica for espousing communist views, according to local Jamaican media.
“Ken Hill, by far the most influential, was more pragmatic and less concerned with political theory than most members of the left. He probably began to consider himself a communist both as a result of the influence of his brother Frank and also his observation of the course of world events,” Hart wrote of the brothers in Towards Decolonisation: Political, Labour and Economic Developments in Jamaica 1938–1945 — a dense tome he published in 1999.
Judge Chutkan has already raised suspicions among conservatives over what they insist is politically motivated bias from the bench.
Earlier this month, Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz introduced a resolution calling for Judge Chutkan to be censured and investigated over “open bias and partisanship in the conduct of her official duties” citing her past supportive comments toward Black Lives Matter rioters in 2020.