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(This article is part of Frontpage Magazine’s new series on the 10 Worst Judges in America. Know a judge you think belongs on the list? Leave nominations in the comments section.)

It was 2017. The Trump administration had finally taken the war to ISIS after years of neglect by the Obama administration. And Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, the radical leftist granddaughter of a Jamaican Communist, was fighting to protect an ISIS terrorist in Iraq.

The Saudi Muslim had been captured by a local Kurdish militia and turned over to American forces in Iraq. He had been caught with a Koran, thousands of dollars, a flash drive with instructions for making IEDs and a spreadsheet titled “Islamic State Spoils and Booty Bureau.”

Spoils under ISIS could include property stolen from non-Muslims as well as non-Muslim slaves. The most notorious example of ISIS ‘spoils’ were Yazidi girls taken as sex slaves by Muslims.

American forces interrogated him and then decided to send him back to Saudi Arabia.

Unfortunately. while studying in Louisiana a decade earlier, the Saudi Muslim had obtained U.S. citizenship. And even though by joining ISIS, he had disavowed it and was subject to denaturalization, the ACLU wanted to get him a lawyer. In Iraq.

And Judge Chutkan, a Jamaican immigrant with a radical pedigree, insisted that he get one. By next year, Judge Chutkan and the ACLU had secured the release of the ISIS terrorist.

The ISIS member who had tweeted that Muslims must unite behind Allah and “cut off the hand and cut out the tongue of the troublemakers” was on the loose thanks to Obama’s worst judge.

Judge Chutkan’s frenzied efforts on behalf of an ISIS terrorist stand in sharp contrast to her infamous reputation as a ‘hanging judge’ in the J6 trials.

In dozens of J6 cases, Chutkan demonstrated her bias by insisting on sending every single defendant before her to prison. In 9 cases, she demanded more prison time than even the Biden Justice Department had requested for its MAGA political opponents.

The striking contrast between Judge Chutkan’s treatment of ISIS and J6 showed where her sympathies lie. Beyond ISIS, Chutkan has worked to protect the worst monsters imaginable.

Among Judge Chutkan’s beneficiaries were Daniel Lewis Lee, a white supremacist gang member who had tortured an 8-year-old girl with a cattle prod before making her watch while he murdered her mother and then suffocated her with a plastic bag, Wesley Ira Purkey, a crackhead previously released for good behavior, who raped and murdered a 16-year-old and beat to death an 80-year-old widow with a claw hammer, and William Emmett LeCroy, a child molester obsessed with witchcraft, who had raped and murdered a local nurse.

Judge Chutkan repeatedly abused her authority to try and spare these human monsters the death penalty and deprive their victims of justice. But had they set one foot in the U.S. Capitol, Chutkan would have been as ruthless and unsparing as she had been solicitous toward them.

In the decade since Obama had placed the Communist nepo baby on the bench, Tanya Chutkan had made it clear that she had no law other than politics. Rather than following the law, Chutkan has spoken of being an “example” to “young people” who “desire to fight injustice”.

And, in typical fashion, Chutkan accused her critics of racism. “For a lot of people, I seem to check a lot of boxes: immigrant, woman, black, Asian. Your qualifications are always going to be subject to criticism and you have to develop a thick skin,”  she sneered.

The criticism wasn’t directed at Chutkan’s race or her other grandfather’s Indian heritage (which no one would know about if she didn’t keep mentioning it to rack up more identity politics points), or her gender (which according to fellow legal scholar Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is only accessible to trained biologists), but her systemic abuse of her office as a federal judge.

Appointed by Obama, Chutkan fought a lawfare insurgency against the Trump administration from the bench, repeatedly issuing discredited rulings that fundamentally abused her authority.

She tried to unilaterally outlaw the death penalty only to be overruled by the Supreme Court. Her insistence that a migrant invader was entitled to an abortion was overturned by then Judge. Kavanaugh. Her campaign against the death penalty racked up reversal after reversal.

Getting the opportunity to target former President Trump just in time for the election must have been Chutkan’s dream come true. The Jamaican leftist judge had long since harbored an obsession with Trump and having Hillary Clinton ally Jack Smith deliver the case to her gave her the power to potentially rig an election. After being overruled by the Supreme Court, she knows that whatever she does will not hold up in any higher court. And she seems to be okay with that.

“I’m risking reversal no matter what I do,” Chutkan admitted over the collapsing Trump case.

Nevertheless the Democrat donor judge has been aiming to use the trial to do as much damage as possible before the election. The same judge who helped free an ISIS terrorist would like to lock Trump up. Like her efforts to aid rapists and murderers while locking up J6ers, this is not a contradiction, but the key to what really drives Chutkan and those leftist radicals like her.

In 1999, Pamela Butler, a 10-year-old girl, was kidnapped while rollerblading in front of her house in Kansas City. Keith Dwayne Nelson had been obsessed with the idea of kidnapping, raping and killing a woman or girl. He raped Pamela, strangled her to death and buried her body behind a church.

When the Trump administration moved to finally bring justice to Pamela’s family, Judge Chutkan tried to block the execution and save Nelson ahead of the 2020 election based on claims that a lethal injection doesn’t come with a prescription and so would violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938. This nonsense was quickly tossed and Nelson was finally put down.

A few years later, Judge Chutkan presided over the case of Stacey Stephens, who had gone to the Capitol with her elderly mother, during the J6 riot. She was inside the Capitol building for a total of 15 minutes. Chutkan insisted nevertheless on sending the middle aged woman to prison, claiming that “I don’t hear remorse for the collective trauma this country has suffered.”

What kind of judge tries to save the killer and rapist of a 10-year-old girl while sending a woman to jail for being inside a building for 15 minutes? A partisan leftist judge with a love for evil.

That’s why Judge Tanya S. Chutkan is #1 in our series of the 10 Worst Judges in America.

(This article is part of FrontPage Magazine’s new series on the 10 Worst Judges in America. Know a judge you think belongs on the list? Leave nominations in the comments section.)