On December 19, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Chutkan to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, to a new seat created pursuant to 104 Stat. 5089, on July 1, 2013.[5][6] She received a hearing before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on February 25, 2014.[7] On March 27, 2014 her nomination was reported out of committee by voice vote.[8] On May 22, 2014 Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid filed for cloture on the nomination. On Tuesday June 3, 2014 the United States Senate voted 54–40 on the motion to invoke cloture.[9] On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 the United States Senate voted in favor of final confirmation by a vote of 95–0.[10][11] She received her judicial commission on June 5, 2014.[3]

Notable cases Edit

In February 2017, Public.Resource.Org was sued by the American Society for Testing and Materials, the National Fire Protection Association, the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers, and other entities for scanning and making available building codes and fire codes which these organizations consider their copyrighted property.[12][13] Chutkan ruled against Public.Resource.Org, ordering all of the standards to be deleted from the Internet.[14]

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In Garza v. Hargan (2017), Chutkan ordered the Office of Refugee Resettlement to allow a girl in its care to have an abortion.[16] That ruling was vacated by a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, reinstated by the full en banc D.C. Circuit, and ultimately mooted by the U.S. Supreme Court.[17] In March 2018, Chutkan certified a class action and ordered the government to provide access to abortions to all girls in ORR's custody.[18]

On June 8, 2018, Chutkan blocked until June 20 the release in Syrian Democratic Forces-controlled territory of a dual-nationality Saudi-American citizen alleged to have joined ISIL. The man, who is now held for nine months in Iraq, was planned to be released by the U.S. military – with a new cell phone, some food and water and $4,210 in cash, and his Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) identification card, as soon as the next day.[19][20]

No way in hell she wants to be deported back to Russia. That possibility is the mother of leverage.