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☆ ‘He really pushes the boundaries’: How Trump has challenged judges trying to rein him in
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-02 | by ( Jeremy Herb | Kara Scannell | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

New York CNN —It took Donald Trump less than 24 hours to test the boundaries of Judge Juan Merchan’s gag order in his New York criminal trial. Inside the courtroom, Trump has been admonished and threatened with removal for being disruptive. Outside the courtroom, Trump has repeatedly railed against the charges he faces in front of cameras and attacked all of those involved on social media. Engoron issued a gag order on commentary about court staff that covered his clerk, fining Trump twice for breaking it. In the federal classified documents case, Trump has appeared several times before Judge Aileen Cannon, whom he appointed.

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Washington CNN —The Washington, DC, trial date in the federal election subversion case against former President Donald Trump has been postponed because of ongoing appeals about the power of the presidency, according to a new court order in the case. Though not official until US District Judge Tanya Chutkan’s order Friday, it became increasingly less likely that the March trial date would hold. The federal case against Trump had been set to begin first among the criminal indictments he faces. The Mar-a-Lago documents case judge, Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee in south Florida, has left open the possibility of revisiting the trial schedule at a hearing March 1. The state-level judge presiding over Trump’s 2020 election conspiracy in Georgia has yet to set a trial date.

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☆ Trump is showing how a second term would rewrite the rules of presidential power
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

CNN —Donald Trump is underscoring the profound choice that voters could face next year with expansive claims of unchecked presidential power alongside increasingly unapologetic anti-democratic rhetoric. This has huge consequences not simply for the courtroom accounting that is yet to take place over his first turbulent term. If the twice-impeached former president wins the Republican nomination and the presidency, it is already clear that a second term would risk destroying the principle that presidents do not hold monarchial power. “Joe Biden is not the defender of American democracy,” Trump said during a campaign stop in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Saturday. And if he succeeds in 2024, his legal arguments will have been a warning of a second term that he envisions with almost no guardrails.

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CNN —The federal judge presiding over Donald Trump’s election subversion case in Washington, DC, has refused to dismiss the charges against the former president, saying he does not enjoy absolute immunity for what he said and did after the 2020 election. “The court cannot conclude that our Constitution cloaks former Presidents with absolute immunity for any federal crimes they committed while in office,” US District Judge Tanya Chutkan wrote. This is an issue that likely must be settled by an appeals courts above Chutkan before Trump’s criminal trial, set for March. Defendant may be subject to federal investigation, indictment, prosecution, conviction, and punishment for any criminal acts undertaken while in office,” Chutkan wrote. The judge shot down that idea, saying that the argument only applies to a sitting president – which Trump is not.

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Former President Donald Trump faces a key week ahead, and yet again the drama won’t be on the campaign trail but in the courtroom as the GOP front-runner’s children prepare to testify before a judge. Ivanka Trump was initially listed as a co-defendant, but a New York appeals court dismissed that status, finding that the claims against her were too old. Chutkan had imposed a narrow gag order on Trump earlier this month, barring him from making public statements targeting prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses. But she paused the gag order to allow Trump’s defense team time to argue why his speech should not be restricted. The ACLU has sided with Trump, arguing that the gag order is a violation of First Amendment free speech protections.

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☆ Trump is forced to play by the rules in court and doesn’t like it
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-26 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

First, Trump appeared to make a new attack on the judge’s clerk in defiance of a gag order. It was not the first time Trump was fined for violating the gag order. As lawyers try the case inside the courtroom, Trump’s conducting his own public trial outside in the corridor. Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is overseeing the federal election subversion trial in Washington, is having a similar problem. Trump has demonstrated throughout a business and political career known for impunity that he can act and speak how he pleases.

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☆ Judge bars Trump from 'smear campaign' against prosecutors, witnesses
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | Companies Need To Integrate Climate Reporting Across Functions To Comply With California S New Law | Henry Engler | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Speaking at a campaign rally in Iowa on Monday, Trump called the judge's order "unconstitutional" and vowed to appeal it. "I'll be the only politician in history that runs with a gag order where I'm not allowed to criticize people," Trump told supporters. The order bars Trump, frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, and attorneys in the case from personally targeting Special Counsel Jack Smith, prosecutors working with him and court staff. Prosecutors sought a limited gag order that would bar certain statements from Trump during the case. The judge said she would allow Trump to make critical statements about the U.S. Justice Department and that denounce the prosecution as politically motivated.

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☆ Donald Trump decries gag order in federal 2020 election subversion case
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-17 | by ( Laura Dolan | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday decried the gag order issued on him by the federal judge overseeing his federal 2020 election subversion case, claiming she “took away my right to speak.”“We’re being railroaded. I’m a candidate that’s running for office and I’m not allowed to speak,” Trump said, referring to the partial gag order issued Monday by US District Judge Tanya Chutkan. The gag order restricts Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses or special counsel Jack Smith and his staff. “This is not about whether I like the language Mr. Trump uses,” Chutkan said in court Monday as she announced the order. Tuesday’s proceedings in the New York civil fraud case will include more testimony from Donna Kidder, the Trump Organization’s assistant controller.

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“This is not about whether I like the language Mr. Trump uses,” U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan said in announcing the decision. But Molly Gaston, who argued for the prosecution, underscored that the Justice Department isn’t seeking to prevent Trump from campaigning. Notably, the judge’s order deals Trump one of the first major consequences he’ll have to reckon with in relation to his ongoing trials. It remains to be seen how the order will impact his daily social media presence and campaigning tactics. Trump did not immediately respond directly to Chutkan’s order, but a spokesman called it the work of “weaponized and targeted law enforcement.”

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☆ Donald Trump gag order imposed by judge: Trump 'does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases,' Judge Chutkan says
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz Katelyn Polantz | Holmes Lybrand | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

“This is not about whether I like the language Mr. Trump uses,” Judge Tanya Chutkan said. Trump will appeal Chutkan’s order, he said in a post on his social media website Truth Social. Following the two federal indictments against the former president, Trump has lashed out against prosecutors, potential witnesses and the judge overseeing the election subversion case in Washington. “When you start to use a word like ‘thug’ to describe a prosecutor doing their job, that wouldn’t be allowed by any other criminal defendant,” Chutkan said. Limited gag order issued in NY fraud trialIf Chutkan does decide to place restrictions on what the former president can say, she won’t be the first judge to do so.

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☆ Takeaways from the testy hearing over the Trump gag order and what it means
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-16 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | Holmes Lybrand | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Though limited in scope, the gag order from Judge Tanya Chutkan is likely the biggest limit on the former president’s speech he has ever been handed. Chutkan outlined the order in court and plans to issue a more detailed written order in the coming days. That order bars Trump only from speaking publicly about the court staff in his civil fraud trial. Chutkan also said she believed she could issue a show-cause order, which would require Trump justify why he breached the rules of the gag order. Violations of the gag order may not necessarily need to be raised by prosecutors for Chutkan to impose a penalty, she said.

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☆ Judge Tanya Chutkan rejects Trump's demand that she recuse herself
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-27 | by ( Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —The federal judge overseeing Donald Trump’s federal 2020 election subversion criminal case will not disqualify herself from the matter, rejecting a longshot bid from the former president’s team to remove her from the case. In her 20-page ruling on Wednesday, Judge Tanya Chutkan spells out her approach to previous US Capitol riot defendants appearing before her and why she mentioned Trump during those hearings. “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” Chutkan wrote in November 2021. Trump’s lawyers’ “inferential leap” based on her comments in other criminal cases “is not reasonable,” she wrote. This story has been updated with additional details.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal prosecutors in the case charging Donald Trump with scheming to overturn the 2020 presidential election are alleging that the former president has targeted individuals with threats, harassment and inflammatory statements, a judge said Friday. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan made the revelation in an order permitting special counsel Jack Smith's team to file a redacted motion on the topic that will black out the names and identifying information of the individuals who say they have been targeted. “The history of harassment and threats towards the individuals whose information has been redacted demonstrates the real likelihood that they could suffer further intimidation upon disclosure of their identities,” Chutkan wrote. “And the government’s proposed redactions are tailored to mitigate that risk, covering only those individuals’ identifying information in a handful of instances and the witness interview transcripts.”Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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CNN —Former President Donald Trump is asking Judge Tanya Chutkan to recuse herself from the 2020 election subversion case against him brought by special counsel Jack Smith. Trump, in a new court filing Monday, pointed to comments that Chutkan made in cases involving January 6 US Capitol rioters. “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” Chutkan wrote in that ruling. Trump’s request that she not oversee the criminal case against him is likely an uphill battle, as it was filed with Chutkan herself. Trump also previously sought the removal of the judge overseeing the New York criminal case against him related to hush money payments.

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☆ Trump cited the ‘Scottsboro Boys’ case when he asked for a 2026 trial. Judge Chutkan rejected any comparison
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-29 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

A female judge, a Black judge, and to talk about that case and compare it to Trump’s case was absurd,” retired California Superior Court Judge LaDoris Hazzard Cordell told CNN’s Kaitlan Collins on CNN’s “The Source” Monday night. “And Judge Chutkan really took them up on it and said this case is entirely different. No comparison between Scottsboro Boys and Trump, judge saysTrump’s attorneys didn’t discuss the Supreme Court case during Monday’s hearing, but used the case to begin their August 17 brief to Chutkan. “The prompt disposition of criminal cases is to be commended and encouraged,” the 1932 Supreme Court ruling states. In addition to Powell, the trials also resulted in the 1935 Supreme Court case Norris v. Alabama, which paved the way for racially diverse juries.

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Washington CNN —The federal criminal trial of Donald Trump on charges he sought to subvert the result of the 2020 presidential election will begin March 4, 2024, the day before the Super Tuesday primary, a federal judge ruled Monday. Special counsel Jack Smith had proposed a January 2024 start date and Trump sought to begin the trial two years later, in April 2026. Smith’s team told Chutkan in a filing earlier this month that the trial should begin on January 2, 2024. “The government’s objective is clear: to deny President Trump and his counsel a fair ability to prepare for trial,” they wrote in their filing. In the Georgia case, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis last week suggested an October 23, 2023, trial date, something Trump’s team also said they oppose.

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In special counsel Jack Smith’s election subversion case, Trump’s bid to put the trial off until after the election appears to have failed. Meanwhile, the criminal case against Trump in New York is also scheduled for March. For instance, prosecutor Molly Gaston pointedly confronted Trump attorney John Lauro with his own public statements during the hearing Monday. Chutkan, who early in the case against Trump made plain her decisions would be clear and final, told Lauro, “Mr. “I take seriously the request that Mr. Trump be treated like any other defendant, and I intend to do so,” Chutkan said.

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☆ Looming Trump trials are throwing judges into an election maelstrom
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-17 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

CNN —Judges are being forced into an unprecedented and perilous spot in the middle of an already tempestuous presidential campaign because of rising acrimony over the criminal trials of Donald Trump. Indeed, Trump and his allies are already framing the four indictments against him as an example of election interference. Smith’s prosecutors implicitly admitted this in arguing in the federal election subversion case that there was an overriding national interest in avoiding unnecessary delays – given the identity of the accused. Thorny questions judges must addressThe fateful decisions that judges will be called on to make go far beyond when the trials take place. For instance, one of his lawyers argued that Smith’s election subversion case cannot be fairly tried in Washington, where Trump won only 5% of the vote.

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☆ Opinion: Trump’s indictment bounce may well be a ‘sugar high’
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Dean Obeidallah | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

CNN —On Sunday, The New York Times published a front-page article titled “How Trump Benefits From an Indictment Effect.” As the Times wrote, “Donors sent checks. Trump’s trial over the 2020 election interference may start in early 2024 if special counsel Jack Smith has his way. And while Trump’s criminal charges yielded “an online gold mine,” according to The New York Times, it’s unclear how much this bump in “bigly” fundraising will continue. Given our polarized electorate, the 2024 presidential election will be close regardless of who the Republican nominee is. But with Trump facing 78 criminal charges — as well as possibly more to come — his sugar high in the GOP primary is going to come crashing down.

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☆ Donald Trump: A stunning possible fourth indictment looms over the former president and the 2024 election
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Trump believes he will be among them and is already fundraising off of the possibility of more criminal charges, casting them as Democratic efforts to interfere in the 2024 election. But there will be key differences between the potential case in Georgia and Trump’s previous indictments. Investigators have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in the Republican stronghold. Smith, for example, has asked a judge to open a trial into the election interference charges in January – just two weeks before the Iowa caucuses. It’s too early to speculate how headlines about these cases could weigh on Trump or Biden in November 2024.

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☆ Takeaways from Judge Chutkan’s contentious first hearing in the Trump 2020 election case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Tierney Sneed | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

As the presiding judge, Chutkan will play a major role in shaping the proceedings in the lead-up to and during the trial. A major throughline of the hearing was her insistence that Trump’s 2024 political campaign could not override the administration of justice in the case. This case is going to proceed in a normal order,” Chutkan said. But many of her rulings regarding the protective order fell in the prosecutors’ favor. Trump’s lawyers were arguing that other individuals, including volunteers, should be able to work through evidence to assist Trump in the case.

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☆ Judge warns Trump not to threaten witnesses in 2020 election subversion case
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-11 | by ( Sarah N. Lynch | Thomson Reuters | Sarah N. Lynch Is The Lead Reporter For Reuters Covering The U.S. Justice Department Out Of Washington | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Windham, New Hampshire, U.S., August 8, 2023. “I caution you and your client to take special care in your public statements about this case. The charges at issue in Friday's hearing are one of three prosecutions currently targeting Trump, the clear front-runner in the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race. In Friday's case, he has pleaded not guilty to criminal charges that he orchestrated a plot to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election to keep himself in power. As a condition of his release, Trump agreed he would not try to intimidate or threaten any witnesses in the case.

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☆ Donald Trump will appear Thursday in the DC federal courthouse – the same place over 1,000 US Capitol rioters have faced justice
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-03 | by ( Tierney Sneed Hannah Rabinowitz Katelyn Polantz | Tierney Sneed | Hannah Rabinowitz | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Trump is scheduled to appear before a magistrate judge on four criminal charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. More than 1,000 Trump supporters who participated in the Capitol breach have also gone through the motions of a first appearance hearing that the former president will go through himself. Bill HennessyMetropolitan and US Capitol police officers are regularly seen in the building, often to appear as witnesses. But Chutkan’s sentences for January 6 rioters stand out as notably tough among the district court’s, according to data provided by the Justice Department. The defendant in that case, she remarked, “did not go to the United States Capitol out of any love for our country.

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☆ Live updates: Trump indicted in special counsel's 2020 election interference probe
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-02 | by ( Aditi Sangal | Leinz Vales | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

In November 2021, Chutkan forcefully rejected Trump’s attempts to block the House select committee investigating January 6 from accessing more than 700 pages of records from his White House. “Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President,” Chutkan wrote in her ruling. At a December 2021 sentencing hearing, she looked ahead to the 2024 election, saying that “every day we are hearing about reports of anti-democratic factions, people plotting potential violence in 2024." … He went for one man.”At a sentencing hearing on October 4, 2021, she acknowledged the nationwide attention on the Capitol riot cases. At that same hearing, she also rejected comparisons between January 6 and the 2020 protests against racial inequality.

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Here are key facts about Chutkan’s background and rulings:OBAMA APPOINTEEChutkan was nominated as a federal judge by President Barack Obama in 2013. She previously served as a public defender in Washington, D.C. representing indigent defendants in criminal cases. “Presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is not president,” Chutkan wrote in her ruling, which was later upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court. She is among judges in D.C. federal court who have spurned some recommendations from prosecutors for lesser punishments. She was the third Black woman to serve as a federal judge in the Washington, D.C. federal trial court when she was confirmed.

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