24 GOP AGs Demand Lifting Of Trump’s Gag Order

Law & Crime reports:

Twenty-four Republican attorneys general combined Sunday, Father’s Day, to oppose special counsel Jack Smith’s request for a gag order, defending former President Donald Trump’s “colorful rhetoric” and arguing that Truth Social posts about the feds’ search of Mar-a-Lago were not true threats to law enforcement.

Claiming to represent states that “each stand to suffer the harms” which “may affect the election” and the “First Amendment rights of tens of millions of Americans,” the AGs touted their “unique and important perspectives” as reasons to permit their opposition to Smith’s request.

“Although President Trump will sometimes use colorful rhetoric to communicate his intent to fight hard for Americans, he has never threatened the law-enforcement officials involved in this case, nor has he invited others to do so,” the proposed brief stated, calling Smith’s demand “presumptively unconstitutional.”

Read the full article. Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is the lead signatory on the brief.