Trump appeals gag order in New York "hush money" trial

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: CBS News/AP

May 15, 2024 / 9:50 PM EDT


Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have New York's highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial.

The former president's lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, a day after the state's mid-level appellate court refused his request to lift or modify the restrictions. The filing was listed on a court docket, but the document itself was sealed and not available. Trump presidential campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said it's a request for the state's Court of Appeals to take up the matter.

"President Trump has filed a notice to appeal the unconstitutional and un-American gag order imposed by conflicted Judge Juan Merchan in the lawless Manhattan DA case," Cheung said in a statement. "The threat to throw the 45th President of the United States and the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election in jail for exercising his First Amendment rights is a Third World authoritarian tactic typical of Crooked Joe Biden and his comrades," Cheung said.

A five-judge panel of the mid-level appeals court, the Appellate Division of the state's trial court, ruled Tuesday that Merchan "properly determined" that Trump's public statements "posed a significant threat to the integrity of the testimony of witnesses and potential witnesses in this case as well."






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[Think. Again.]

1. His lawyers really don't...

...understand his going to stiff them for all these billable hours, do they?

[NanaCat]

19. They're not getting stiffed

At least one of his lawyers is a real trial lawyer, and trial lawyers know how criminals are. That's why they demand payment up front from their (allegedly) criminal clients. It's called a retainer, and most defence lawyers require one before they agree to represent someone charged with a felony.

When you hear about the RNC paying for lawyers? That's them paying retainers, to get TSF represented at all. Nobody with any kind of competence would represent him without a retainer.

[Think. Again.]

20. Must be a pretty big retainer...

...to absorb all the constant appeals and motions.

[AZLD4Candidate]

5. His name in roman letters follows old Wade-Giles and not Pinyin, leading me to believe he is either

Hong Konger or Taiwanese in heritage.

Most mainlanders use Pinyin, which is why Hisao in Taiwan is Xiao on the Mainland.

[Botany]

10. Well the man doesn't understand our Constitution because in his appeal he wrote about the gag order ....

….. being unconstitutional because the right to fair trial is right there in the Constitution
and the judge’s gag order was issued in order to protect just that however the SCOTUS
hasn’t been bound by the Constitution for years.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Who does this clown think he is, Peter Navarro? /nt

[CincyDem]

4. The court should address this with all possible haste.

Haste being defined by SCOTUS and their calendar for his immunity claim. Oral arguments set for late June with a ruling by Halloween.

[iluvtennis]

6. Another frivolous appeal. n/t

[Harker]

11. I'm surprised he hasn't appealed the thermostat setting. n/t

[bigmonk]

7. Appeal court?

I really don't understand appeals courts. I would think that whoever was appealing would have to present solid evidence of misconduct before the appeals court would even listen to them.

[Justice matters.]

14. It should but the system is weak.

It needs a "real justice for all" update.

[Firestorm49]

8. So the SOB is hinting at violence if he loses but

wants the gag order removed so that he can intimidate whomever he wants? He’s no more than a two bit crook, and that’s why he’s a defendant sitting in court - and not even that good of a crook. What planet is this abomination of a man boy living on?

[sakabatou]

9. He's already broken the gag order several times already

[live love laugh]

17. The coward quickly shut up when he heard Rikers was ready for him.

There is no “storming” or press conferences at Rikers.

[lark]

12. Next up - SCOTUS

What would the fascist 6 do if this came to them? They already have their hands on the scales, tilting them to tsf, would they go even further? No telling with these 6 far right threats to our country.

[Justice matters.]

16. And the suggestion for an expansion to 13 to reflect the current districts remains a wet dream.

[lark]

23. It's definitely a fantasy dream for me!! nt

[Pas-de-Calais]

13. Boo effin hoo

[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. TFG likes losing court cases

[NanaCat]

18. Like a dog returning to its own vomit

TSF appeals the same old shite, different day.

[twodogsbarking]

21. Much, if not most, of Trump's "success" comes from never-ending court filings.

His entire adult life has been this way. He wears down his oponent with legal costs and they give in.
That is in essence how he got Mar a lago. Palm Beach County couldn't afford to fight him. People
really disliked Trump there back as far as 1990. He bullied the county. It is his MO. He is very good at being bad.

[ificandream]

22. Having his lemmings show up in court and criticize the judge and AG should be violations of the gag order.