Federal judge pauses limited gag order on Trump in 2020 election interference case

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News

Updated on: October 20, 2023 / 6:35 PM


D.C. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has issued an administrative stay, agreeing to temporarily pause her partial gag order of former President Donald Trump to give the parties time to submit appeal briefs. The stay is not related to the merits of the case.

Late Friday afternoon in a court filing, Trump defense attorneys asked Judge Chutkan to stay the limited gag order she issued against Trump in the 2020 election conspiracy criminal case, while Trump appeals the order, arguing that it's unconstitutional.

On Monday, Judge Chutkan ordered Trump not to make posts or statements "targeting" court staff, potential witnesses in the case, special counsel Jack Smith or his family. Prosecutors made a lengthy argument that Trump's posts could contribute to danger or violence and could contaminate the jury pool ahead of his March 4, 2024 trial here in Washington, D.C.

Trump's latest filing argues the gag order and the prosecution are politically motivated. The defense wrote "No Court in American history has imposed a gag order on a ... defendant who is campaigning for public office-least of all on the leading candidate for President."

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/limited-gag-order-on-trump-in-2020-election-interference-case-paused/

[republianmushroom]

1. Time to stop the coddling and let trump put on his long pants.

He is old enough to know right from wrong.

[GB_RN]

3. Old Enough?

Yes. Capable? Not so much…at least not in the conventional sense. For the Mango Mussolini, right and wrong are concepts that only apply with respect to how something does/not benefit him. If it benefits him, it’s right. If not, it’s wrong.

[BootinUp]

2. Kabuki theater. nt

[ificandream]

4. He's trying to use his campaign spiel on the judge

Sorry, but it ain't gonna work. You know, however, he's keeping tabs on all this shit for an eventual appeal.

[ShazzieB]

5. Leading candidate for President, my ass.

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AS IF that should matter, even if it were true.

Mango Mussolini is NOT the "leading candidate for president." He is, for some inexplicable and nonsensical reason, the leading candidate for the Republican nomination, but that is NOT the same thing.

Furthermore, running for president should not afford or entitle him to any special privileges. No matter how firmly he may believe in his narcissistic mind that he is the most special snowflake who ever snowflaked, he is not, and the sooner one of these judges can drum that into his head, the better off we will all be.

P.S. Fuck Donald John Trump.

[Ohioboy]

10. It should matter even more if the person indicted is a candidate for president

We shouldn't have potential convicted criminals running for president, period.

We voted this ass out once already! He needs to go away!

[ananda]

13. He's actually losing badly. Even Republicans at my bridge club...

are saying they'd rather vote for a squirrel than for Trump
because of "what he did."

And this is Texas.

[ShazzieB]

19. Oh, that is great to hear!

May your bridge club members be part of a trend!

[ananda]

22. That's what I'm hoping!

!!!

[progressoid]

24. Well your Bridge club members are a minority.

https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/latest-uttexas-politics-project-poll-finds-texas-republicans%E2%80%99-support-donald-trump-unwavering


As the 2024 race for the Republican nomination begins to take shape, the August 2023 University of Texas/Texas Politics Project Poll finds Texas Republicans’ continued support for former president Donald Trump evident in several results ranging from general assessments to attitudes toward the criminal indictments against him, the legitimacy of the 2020 presidential election, and beliefs about the January 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol led by supporters of the former president.

Overall, 41% of Texas voters reported a favorable view of Trump while 51% had an unfavorable view, with the small remainder offering no opinion. Following the pattern that has persisted since he won the presidency in 2016, partisan views were polarized: 86% of Democrats hold unfavorable views of the former president (81% very unfavorable), while 7% hold a favorable view. Among Republicans, 79% hold a favorable view (55% very favorable), while 15% view Trump unfavorably.

The most recent UT/Texas Politics Project Poll was conducted August 18-29, 2023, with a sample of 1200 self-declared registered voters, with a margin of error of +/- 2.83%. Data collection was carried out by YouGov via the internet. Selected results from the poll related to the impeachment trial of suspended attorney general Ken Paxton were released September 1, and are included in summary documents and compiled results now available on the Texas Politics Project website.

Asked whether the major indictments of Trump were mostly “based on the facts” or “mostly based on politics,” Republicans held remarkably sympathetic views of Trump’s many legal entanglements: 80% or more of Texas Republicans said that politics were the primary basis for the criminal charges against Trump in investigations into his mishandling of classified documents after he left office (80%), his indictment for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results in the U.S. (85%), and in Georgia (83%). A comparatively smaller but still clear majority believe that the charges brought against Trump for illegally paying money to an adult film star were mostly based on politics (70%).

[ananda]

25. Well, they are still pretty horrible conservatives.

But I thought maybe it was a good sign anyway.

[Scottie Mom]

6. For gawd's sake...he's a criminal defendant on pre-sentence release!

What the hell does he think he deserves? A parade?

Talk about BS privilege. ALL criminal defendants have terms imposed on them for release. He is no better than any other crook and insurrectionist.

Geez!

[SouthernDem4ever]

7. He's a fucken insurrectionist

He shouldn't have any rights - the stupid pig.

[thesquanderer]

8. So his argument is, "In order to campaign, I need to be able to spew hate." n/t

[Ohioboy]

9. I like how Trump thinks just because it's never been done for a president before

it shouldn't be done to him.

That's because most presidents haven't been indicted! Don't get indicted and it won't happen to you, idiot.

[Justice matters.]

11. Judge Chutkan is confident the appeal will be rejected...

And the SC will toss it out as frivolous... (they don't want to destroy their own 'powers')...

That will pretty much solidify her sentencing power once the jury will convict that disgusting a-hole.

[DJ Porkchop]

12. Relax she's appeal-proofing this case

[SlimJimmy]

14. Count on DU to over-react to anything having to do with Orange Man.

The judge is doing the right thing here, as you said. She is simply appeal proofing the case. Smart.

[NYC Liberal]

17. Same reason why I think the prosecution hasn't pushed for him to be jailed.

It just gives him another avenue to appeal and delay.

Should he be, objectively? Probably. I'm sure you or I would be. But in this case, the best thing is to get to the trial as quickly as possible, because that's exactly what he does not want.

[KPN]

20. Yup. And giving him just enough rope to hang himself

in the process.

[Farmer-Rick]

15. He left the post attacking the court clerk up.

Even after he was warned to remove it by the judge.

"Justice Arthur Engoron said a Trump social media post attacking the judge's clerk - which was deleted from the former president's Truth Social platform - had remained visible on his 2024 campaign website two weeks after an order was issued to take it down."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-fined-5000-post-disparaging-court-clerk-new-york-case-filing-2023-10-20/

Trump knew it was still up and hoped someone would rid him of this troublesome priest, as an example for anyone opposing him.

Trump will always push the boundaries of any restrictions on his crimes. In his mind he's king....except for Putin.

[onenote]

21. Different case.

Your post is about the NY fraud case.
The OP is about the federal election tampering case in DC

[Farmer-Rick]

23. Yeah, I know

I was just using it as an example of how he pushes the boundaries

[RocRizzo55]

16. Lock the bass turd up already!

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Trump's been given license to show his true colors this weekend

It's basically a sting operation

[getagrip_already]

26. She did this to avoid a trial delay....

This gives the appeals court a chance to reject the appeal without having to issue a broader stay which may have impacted the trial date, which is tinys goal.

In reality, if he does something blatant, she can still take action based on the original pretrial release conditions. She can find him in contempt and jail him. She has very broad latitude, even without a specific order.

[Hotler]

27. Seems every piece of paper filed is a 2-week delay.

"Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!"

Every day the orange one walks free is one day closer to a possible fascist takeover.

[marble falls]

28. When he promised informally to refrain from making inflamitory statements, she knew ...

he was lying. But now he can't say he wasn't treated as 'innocent before being found guilty'.