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A panel of Washington, D.C. federal appeals court judges was highly skeptical of arguments Monday by a lawyer for Donald Trump that the former president is being unconstitutionally silenced by a gag order in his criminal election interference case. Sauer replied that "the showing would have to be extraordinarily compelling" in order to justify restricting Trump's speech. Trump was slapped with the gag order last month by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who said his statements targeting people involved in the case posed "sufficiently grave threats to the integrity of these proceedings." Chutkan's gag order barred Trump from making public statements targeting his prosecutors and "reasonably foreseeable" witnesses regarding the substance of their testimony. Trump has pleaded not guilty to the four-count indictment charging him with crimes including conspiracy to defraud the United States.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court is hearing arguments Monday on whether to reinstate a gag order against Donald Trump in the federal case charging him with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. The prosecutors say those restrictions are necessary to prevent Trump from undermining confidence in the court system and intimidating people who may be called to testify against him. The gag order is one of multiple contentious issues being argued ahead of the landmark March 2024 trial. Political Cartoons View All 1256 ImagesThe judge lifted it days after entering it, giving Trump's lawyers time to prove why his words should not be restricted. Should the judges rule against Trump, he'll have the option of asking the entire court to take up the matter.

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☆ Haley and DeSantis still can’t solve their Trump problem as time runs short in GOP race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN —A weekend of ferocious political exchanges laid out the tumultuous reality of the 2024 White House campaign less than a year from Election Day. The fight for the GOP nomination is about far more than a horse race between candidates. Time is quickly ebbing for one of his distant Republican rivals to recast the race less than two months before voting begins. No lawyer, White House staffer, campaign adviser, political party or institution has ever been able to curb Trump’s impulses. “We are turning up the heat and brightening the spotlight on exactly what it would look like if he’s allowed back in the White House,” a Biden campaign official told CNN’s Arlette Saenz of Trump.

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☆ Trump should be allowed to pressure witnesses in his election interference case depending on 'the context,' his lawyer tells judges
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Trump's legal team argued against his gag order in his upcoming election interference trial. AdvertisementA panel of three judges on Monday appeared highly skeptical of arguments from Donald Trump's legal team seeking to revoke a gag order that bars him from attacking potential witnesses in his election interference criminal case. Depending on "the context," Lauro argued, Trump would be permitted to pressure possible witnesses not to cooperate with prosecutors. The gag order in the election interference case is separate from a gag order in another ongoing civil trial against Trump in New York. He found that Trump violated it earlier in November, though an appeals court on Thursday temporarily lifted the order.

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☆ Trump to test the limits of the First Amendment at high-stakes hearing over constitutionality of gag order
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Devan Cole | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The gag order from District Judge Tanya Chutkan restricts Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses, special counsel Jack Smith and his staff. The appeals court has temporarily frozen the gag order as Trump continues to contest it. “The Gag Order violates President Trump’s most fundamental First Amendment rights. The former president was recently under a gag order in the $250 million New York state civil fraud case. “The entire Gag Order rests on an unconstitutional ‘heckler’s veto’ theory, so it is overbroad in its entirety.”Trump’s arguments were not persuasive when he tried to have Chutkan pause the gag order while his appeal unfolded.

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☆ Judge denies Trump bid to cut Jan. 6 riot language from D.C. election indictment
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-17 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a "Save America Rally" near the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021. A judge on Friday turned down a request by Donald Trump to cut allegedly "inflammatory" language about him sparking the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot from the federal indictment charging him with crimes related to his bid to overturn his presidential election loss. Chutkan wrote that Trump's court filing supporting his request makes "numerous and inflammatory and unsupported accusations of its own." The judge, in an aside, wrote that such pretrial publicity would include "any generated by the Defendant," Trump. One of the four counts against him accuses Trump of conspiring to impede Congress' Jan. 6 certification of Biden's victory.

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☆ Trump, Prosecutors Clash Over Televising Election-Interference Trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-14 | by ( Jan Wolfe | C. Ryan Barber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Former president Donald Trump is facing four separate indictments at both state and federal levels. WSJ breaks down each of the indictments and what they mean for his 2024 presidential campaign. Photo Illustration: Annie ZhaoWASHINGTON—Former President Donald Trump has breathed new life into a push by media companies to televise his federal trial on election-subversion charges, but the odds of cameras being in the courtroom remain slim. On Friday, Trump’s lawyers urged U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to allow broadcasting of the trial, scheduled to begin in March, saying that the “prosecution wishes to continue this travesty in darkness” and that “President Trump calls for sunlight.”

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Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith urged a federal judge charged with overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal election interference case in Washington that allowing the trial to be broadcast live on television would “create a carnival atmosphere” that the former president desires. They also argued that live video coverage would help undermine conspiracy theories surrounding the case. Editorial Cartoons on Donald Trump View All 690 ImagesTrump initially took “no position” on televising the trial, according to a filing that cites his lawyers. But on Friday, the former president performed an about-face, filing a motion to Chutkan that asks her to permit his trial to be broadcast live. News organizations have sprouted around-the-clock coverage of the D.C. election interference case, along with Trump’s other indictments and criminal charges.

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☆ Opinion: How judges can outmaneuver Trump’s delay tactics
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Opinion Thomas G. Moukawsher | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Luckily, there are a few ways judges can stop his delay tactics, if they are willing to apply them. Cannon is the Florida federal judge presiding over the case examining whether Trump mishandled classified documents at his Florida home. In this way, if judges apply the usual court process, Trump can keep the cases marching in place for years — until after the 2024 election in particular. It used to be that you would appeal after you lost a case in the trial court. They have the tools in the Trump cases to rectify the problem.

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☆ Trump’s legal team asks for federal election subversion trial to be televised
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump’s legal team has formally told a federal court that he would like his election subversion trial in Washington, DC, to be televised. Court rules do not allow for broadcasting of federal proceedings, and the Justice Department is opposed to allowing cameras. Several media outlets have asked the court to consider allowing cameras at the historic trial, set for March. “President Trump absolutely agrees, and in fact demands, that these proceedings should be fully televised,” his attorneys wrote in the filing late Friday night. Special counsel Jack Smith, who brought the case, opposes televising the federal election subversion trial.

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Donald Trump is pushing for his federal election interference trial in Washington to be televised, joining media outlets that say the American public should be able to watch the historic case unfold. The Justice Department is opposing the effort to broadcast the trial, scheduled to begin in March, and notes that federal court rules prohibit televised proceedings. The request for a televised trial comes as the federal election case in Washington has emerged as the most potent and direct legal threat to Trump’s political fortunes. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has appeared determined to keep the Washington trial date as scheduled. Associated Press reporter Eric Tucker in Washington contributed to this report.

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☆ Trump backs requests for TV coverage of his federal criminal trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton Acquire Licensing RightsWASHINGTON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump has filed a legal motion backing media requests for live television coverage of his federal trial on charges he conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump is facing four criminal proceedings, including the federal court trial set for March in which he faces charges of attempting to defraud the federal government and obstructing Congress by knowingly spreading false claims of election fraud. In his latest filing by his lawyers, John Lauro and Todd Blanche, Trump endorsed requests by media organizations that U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan allow live television coverage of the trial. "Every person in America, and beyond, should have the opportunity to study this case firsthand and watch as, if there is a trial, President Trump exonerates himself of these baseless and politically motivated charges," said the filing. Smith earlier this month opposed the media requests, citing a decades-old federal court rule barring broadcasts of criminal proceedings.

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☆ Trump claims Jack Smith and his family ‘despise’ him
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Ali Main | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Former President Donald Trump continued his attacks on special counsel Jack Smith on Saturday, including a reference to Smith’s family, at a rally in Claremont, New Hampshire. Referring to the alleged ill -will Smith and his family have for Trump, the former president said Smith is “about at 10” and his family is “about a 15 on a scale of 10.”Some of Trump’s attacks against Smith stem from the activities of his wife, filmmaker Katy Chevigny. I just want to do what’s right for the country,” Trump told the crowd. Trump quickly appealed and sought to have the gag order paused while the appeal unfolded. A federal appeals court later temporarily froze the limited gag order, allowing him to again speak freely with criticism of possible witnesses in the case.

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☆ Trump's free speech defense may fall short in election subversion trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Andrew Goudsward | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Trump’s defense lawyers, in a flurry of legal motions, have argued that the case by Special Counsel Jack Smith "attempts to criminalize core political speech and political advocacy." At trial, legal experts say Trump will likely not be allowed to argue to a jury that his conduct was protected by his First Amendment right to free speech because such legal questions are resolved by the judge. Those claims complement his political case as an anti-establishment crusader whose movement is opposed by powerful foes seeking to silence him. Criminal defendants can use the defense to argue they sought legal opinions and did not intend to break the law. Three former Trump lawyers have already pleaded guilty in Georgia, including Kenneth Chesebro, who drafted memos crafting the fake elector scheme.

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☆ Trump 'stands alone in American history for his alleged crimes,' special counsel says
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Former U.S. President and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Sioux City, Iowa, U.S. October 29, 2023. Donald Trump "stands alone in American history for his alleged crimes" related to trying to overturn his loss in the 2020 presidential election , special counsel Jack Smith 's office said in a court filing Monday. "But the defendant stands alone in American history for his alleged crimes." The other filing alleged that Trump "has promoted and extolled the events of that day. While the violent attack was ongoing, the defendant told rioters that they were 'very special' and that 'we love you.'

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☆ Why the Trump trials should be on camera
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Zachary Wolf | Analysis Zachary B. Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

CNN —If you were to dream up a hypothetical case that demanded cameras in federal courts, it would be United States of America v. Donald J. Trump. The importance the coming four criminal trials will play in the 2024 election cannot be overstated. Supreme Court justices, as we’ve previously written in this newsletter, frequently endorse the idea of cameras in the courtroom right up until they get that lifetime Supreme Court appointment. In the Senate, there is a bipartisan proposal to require the Supreme Court to allow cameras in its courtroom. That’s not exactly what we’re talking about with the criminal trials of Trump in the lower federal court, but it does suggest bipartisan openness to the issue of making courts more transparent.

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☆ Developments in Trump’s galaxy of legal problems, explained
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-04 | by ( Zachary Wolf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

CNN —Try to keep track of the galaxy of former President Donald Trump’s legal problems. The trial marks the first of Trump’s criminal cases expected to proceed. Federal criminal court in Florida: Mishandling classified materialTrump has pleaded not guilty to 37 federal charges brought by Smith over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. A federal judge threw out the lawsuit in November 2022. A New York judge dismissed The New York Times from Trump’s lawsuit regarding disclosure of his tax returns and ordered Trump to pay the newspaper’s legal fees.

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☆ Appeals court freezes gag order against Trump in federal election subversion case and will hear oral arguments this month
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Devan Cole | Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —A federal appeals court on Friday temporarily froze the limited gag order issued against Donald Trump in the former president’s election subversion criminal case in Washington, DC, allowing him to again speak freely with criticism of possible witnesses in the case. Now, the appeals court will consider whether it will grant relief to the former president in the matter. “The prosecution’s request for a Gag Order bristles with hostility to President Trump’s viewpoint and his relentless criticism of the government—including of the prosecution itself,” Trump’s attorneys told the appeals court in a filing Thursday. “The Gag Order embodies this unconstitutional hostility to President Trump’s viewpoint. It should be immediately stayed.”The order restricts Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff.

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☆ Will Trump’s Barbs Land Him Behind Bars?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Susan Milligan | ) www.usnews.com time to read: +9 min

It was a historic and jarring event when FBI agents searched former President Donald Trump's home last year to look for classified documents he was accused of hoarding. "Courts and prosecutors have to become normalized to the idea of detaining Trump – if he continues to violate gag orders and/or if he is convicted at trial," Signorelli says. Less-powerful defendants have been punished with time behind bars for being in contempt of court (including violating gag orders) or threatening authorities. Sam Bankman-Fried, the former billionaire crypto trader, was put behind bars in August weeks before his fraud trial after giving a media outlet private writings by a witness. While courts are sensitive to First Amendment protections – especially for someone running for president – Trump is pushing the legal envelope, Eisen says.

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☆ Appeals court temporarily lifts Trump's gag order as he fights the restrictions on his speech
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A federal appeals court temporarily lifted a gag order on Donald Trump in his federal election interference case in Washington on Friday — the latest twist in the legal fight over the restrictions on the former president's speech. Circuit decision puts a hold on the gag order to give the judges time to consider Trump's request for a longer pause on the restrictions while his appeals play out. Trump's lawyers say they will go to the Supreme Court, if necessary, to fight what they say are unconstitutional restrictions on his political speech. The defense has said prosecutors have provided no evidence that potential witnesses or anyone else felt intimidated by the former president's social media posts. The D.C. appeals court could ultimately uphold the gag order or find that the restrictions imposed by Chutkan went too far.

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☆ New York judge widens Trump case gag order; limits in criminal case lifted
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Companies Need To Integrate Climate Reporting Across Functions To Comply With California S New Law | Henry Engler | October | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The judge has fined Trump $15,000 for twice violating that gag order. A three-judge panel, all appointed by Democratic presidents, scheduled oral arguments on Trump's appeal of the gag order for Nov. 20. Trump's lawyers have argued the order violates his free speech rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment. In the New York case, Engoron said on Friday he has an "unfettered right" to consult with his staff members throughout the trial, and that the gag order was intended to protect their safety. Failure to honor the gag order, the judge said, "shall result in serious sanctions."

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☆ Trump unleashes new attack on the legal system after his sons take the stand
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Stephen Collinson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

Things grew heated when Amer apparently succeeded in undermining Eric Trump’s claims that he had little to do with his father’s financial statements. “I understand we had financials as a company,” Eric Trump said. Eric Trump replied: “It appears that way, yes.”In essence, both Trump sons are arguing that despite running the company, they knew nothing about its financial statements. In a bizarre passage of the trial, Trump attorney Chris Kise insisted: “I’m not a misogynist. CNN legal analyst Shan Wu said that neither the testimony of Eric Trump nor the strategy of attacking court personnel seemed like a smart approach.

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☆ Special counsel accuses Trump legal team of trying to manipulate courts with requests to delay trials
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-02 | by ( Katelyn | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Prosecutors with special counsel Jack Smith’s office have accused former President Donald Trump’s legal team of seeking to manipulate the courts in their bid to delay his trials past the 2024 presidential election. Currently, the 2020 election federal trial is set to begin in early March, and the Florida documents case is set to go to trial in late May. The request may be a long-shot before Chutkan of the DC federal District Court, who has indicated she wants the March trial date to hold. Prosecutors from special counsel Jack Smith’s office – which is prosecuting both federal cases against Trump – seized on Trump’s request in DC as they argued to keep the Florida federal trial in the spring. Neither judge has said if Trump’s federal trial dates will stay as is.

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☆ Washington judge, Georgia DA both got violent threats on heels of Trump vow to 'go after' foes, court docs allege
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-31 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

A lead prosecutor and a judge involved in separate criminal cases against Donald Trump received violent threats within two days of the former president warning that he was "coming after" his foes, court documents allege. Prosecutors allege Arthur Hanson, 59, of Huntsville, Alabama, delivered the threats in voicemails left for Willis and Labat on Aug. 6. Smith cited the same post in a September court filing seeking a gag order against Trump. Later in August, Trump was booked and had his mugshot taken at Fulton County jail, which was run by Labat. Trump was already facing dozens of felony counts in three other criminal cases by the time he was charged in Georgia.

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☆ Judge Reinstates Donald Trump Gag Order
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( C. Ryan Barber | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Donald Trump’s lawyers are expected to ask a federal appeals court to intervene and put a hold on the restrictions while they challenge the gag order. Photo: scott morgan/ReutersWASHINGTON—A federal judge late Sunday reinstated a gag order barring Donald Trump from publicly criticizing prosecutors, potential witnesses and court staff involved in the criminal case charging him with conspiring to overturn the 2020 election. With the ruling from Judge Tanya Chutkan , the gag order returns to effect and raises the specter of sanctions for Trump if he’s found to violate its terms. Trump’s lawyers are expected to ask a federal appeals court to intervene immediately and put a hold on the restrictions while they challenge the gag order.

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