Tag Archives: Trump gag order

CNN reports: Prosecutor Joshua Steinglass is now bringing up some of Trump’s recent Truth Social posts saying they violate the gag order to not make statements about potential witnesses. Among the posts, prosecutors cite one from Wednesday when Trump references “two sleazebags,” which, in the context, are Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels. Some of the requests happening in court from …

The Meidas Touch reports: This morning, just hours after Judge Merchan expanded the gag order, Trump posted a video on his Truth Social page where he quoted George Washington Law School Professor Jonathan Turley discussing the integrity of the New York legal system. The video features an interview of Turley during a Fox News segment in which Brian Kilmeade, one …

USA Today reports: Former President Donald Trump was hit with a wider gag order in his New York criminal hush money case after repeatedly targeting the judge’s daughter in social media posts. The late Monday order from Judge Juan Merchan blocks Trump from making public statements about family members of the judge or Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg if the …

Posted this morning to Trump’s Truth Social account: Judge Juan Merchan, who is suffering from an acute case of Trump Derangement Syndrome (whose daughter represents Crooked Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Adam “Shifty” Schiff, and other Radical Liberals, has just posted a picture of me behind bars, her obvious goal, and makes it completely impossible for me to get a fair …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump’s legal team has asked the New York judge presiding over his hush money case to block a limited gag order proposed by state prosecutors just weeks before the historic trial is set to get underway. Trump attorneys Susan Necheles and Todd Blanche wrote in a new court filing Monday that the former president’s status …

CNN reports: The federal appeals court in Washington, DC, declined to rehear arguments over whether former President Donald Trump can be prohibited from talking about witnesses and court staff while he awaits trial in the special counsel’s January 6 criminal case. The 11 judges from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday declined to touch the case after a …

Reuters reports: Donald Trump on Friday appealed a gag order restricting the former U.S. president from publicly talking about court staff in his New York civil fraud trial to the state’s highest court. Trump unsuccessfully appealed the order to a mid-level appeals court, arguing it violated his right to free speech. The mid-level court, known as the Appellate Division, on …

The Messenger reports: A New York appellate court on Thursday denied former President Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn gag orders barring him from attacking the principle law clerk of the state judge presiding over his civil fraud case. In a four-page ruling, New York’s Appellate Division, First Department noted that “the gravity of potential harm is small, given that the …

The Messenger reports: “Why is Judge Engoron’s Principal Law Clerk, Allison R. Greenfield, palling around with Chuck Schumer?” @JudicialProtest wrote on Sept. 27, 2023, showing the clerk and the Senate Majority Leader posing for a picture. On Oct. 3, 2023, the second day of his civil fraud trial, Trump attached a screenshot of that post to his own social media …

The Daily Beast reports: Trump’s strategy has been simple: say whatever he wants, inspire a gag order, appeal the decision, and even if the gag order is upheld, refuse to delete the social media posts he made during the confusion. Trump then watches his old posts take on a life of their own, inspiring violent threats against his intended targets …

The Washington Post reports: A federal appeals court narrowed an order limiting what former president Donald Trump can say about people involved in the criminal case alleging that he tried to subvert the 2020 election results, saying he cannot talk about witnesses’ involvement or single out other individuals in ways likely to interfere with the case. “The First Amendment unquestionably …

The Messenger reports: “The only potential harm that exists here is the risk of violence against Justice Engoron’s staff if this Court grants a writ of prohibition,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s attorney David Nocenti wrote in a 15-page appellate filing, in boldface text. Engoron questions why Trump’s lawyers would fight so strenuously against such a narrow order. The …

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump’s legal team on Monday sought to appeal a gag order barring the former president from speaking about a judge’s law clerk to New York’s highest court. An intermediate appellate court last week reinstated the gag order blocking Trump and his attorneys from making any statements about Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s staff. Since that …

The Messenger reports: Donald Trump’s lawyers on Friday filed a response to prosecutors’ Thursday filing, arguing that any threats the former president could have triggered against Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron or his court staff are “irrelevant” to the need for a gag order in the case Trump faces in Washington, D.C. “To date, the prosecution has never submitted …

CBS News reports: A three-judge appeals court panel paused the federal gag order that partially limited former president Donald Trump’s speech ahead of his 2020 election interference trial in Washington, D.C., according to a court ruling Friday. The ruling administratively and temporarily stays Judge Tanya Chutkan’s decision to bar Trump from publicly targeting court staff, potential witnesses, and members of …

The Guardian reports: The judge overseeing Donald Trump’s $250m fraud trial moved to gag Trump’s lawyers from talking about “confidential communications” between him and his staff on Friday. Judge Arthur Engoron has already fined Trump $15,000 for attacking his clerk on social media and threatened to jail the former president if the attacks continue. “Failure to abide by this directive …

The New York Times reports: Lawyers for former President Donald J. Trump filed an emergency request to a federal appeals court on Thursday seeking to lift the gag order imposed on him in the criminal case in which he stands accused of trying to overturn the 2020 election. The lawyers asked the appeals court to keep the pause of the …

The Messenger reports: The federal judge overseeing the election-subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to enter a legal brief in the proceedings. The ACLU on Oct. 25 submitted a motion seeking the court’s permission to enter an amicus brief in the case in which it argued that a partial gag order …

Posted to Trump’s Truth Social account: I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents. This order, according to many legal …

Reuters reports: A federal judge on Sunday reinstated a gag order she imposed on Donald Trump in the Washington case accusing him of trying to overturn his 2020 election defeat, denying his bid for a stay pending appeal. The order prohibited Trump from targeting the special counsel prosecuting his case or witnesses who might be called to testify about his …