Judges can threaten gag order violators with fines or jail time, but jailing a presidential candidate could prompt serious political blowback and pose logistical hurdles.
A gag order may also slow down the case because it's likely Trump either violates it and the judge will want to punish him or Trump will challenge the order in advance, he said.
In one case, a federal appeals court in 1987 lifted a gag order on U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Sr., a Tennessee Democrat charged in a fraud case.
Ford’s gag order prohibited him from even sharing his opinion of or discussing facts of the case.
He said he was dubious that Trump’s attacks, “while in very poor taste,” posed the kind of danger to merit a gag order.
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