Judge Juan Merchan imposed a gag order Tuesday on Donald Trump, ahead of the hush money trial set for April 15. Reading Merchan’s decision, in which he cited the defendant’s record of “threatening” statements against people across the legal system, it’s easy to understand why he took that step. But how will the judge enforce it? If Trump violates the order, then this ceases to be an academic musing and becomes a question of what the order was worth in the first place. We saw what happened in the...
After Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis faced potential disqualification from Donald Trump's election interference case in Georgia, legal analyst and former U.S. attorney Joyce Vance warned on Saturday that Willis is a "cautionary tale" for other Trump prosecutors.Willis has found herself at the center of a potential ethics violation related to her alleged affair with special prosecutor Nathan Wade. This comes amid Willis' case against the former president, in which Trump and 18...
Nick Akerman, a former Watergate prosecutor, said that in his 50-some years in law, he has never seen a gag order like the one imposed on former President Trump in his hush money payments case this week. New York Judge Juan Merchan issued the gag order on Tuesday following a request from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. "This is so unusual," Akerman told CNN’s Fredericka Whitfield on Wednesday. "This never happens, in over 50 years in law practice, both as a prosecutor and a defense...
Former President Donald Trump blasted Judge Juan Merchan, who is overseeing his New York criminal case, on Wednesday–a day after he imposed a sweeping gag order on Trump.
Order bars former president from commenting on witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors, but not Alvin BraggA New York judge on Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from making public statements about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial.The judge, Juan Merchan, cited Trump’s previous comments about him and others involved in the case, as well as a looming 15 April trial date in granting the prosecution’s request for a gag...
After Monday's hearing, Judge Juan Merchan determined that the New York "hush money" criminal case against former President Donald Trump would proceed to trial on April 15, a brief three-week delay from the initial March 25 setting. The judge had previously issued a number of pre-trial rulings in the case, most of which appear to favor the prosecution.
Trump has been using his platform ‘Truth Social’ as a megaphone for political messaging.
Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at the New York judge who put him under a gag order ahead of his April 15 hush-money criminal trial, suggesting that the veteran jurist was kowtowing to his daughter’s interests as a Democratic political consultant. The former president objected in particular to what he claimed was her posting of […]
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The former Brexit Party leader is in line for a 'very significant' job if Mr Trump returns to the White House , most likely as an economic envoy to the UK or economic adviser.
The news followed bombshell revelations that DA Fani Willis and prosecutor Nathan Wade were engaged in a romantic relationship.
March 26 (UPI) — New York Judge Juan Merchan placed a partial gag order on Donald Trump on Tuesday, barring him from making public statements about attorneys, witnesses and potential jurors in the hush-money case. The former president is prohibited from making statements or directing others to make statements about those protected by the gag order. Merchan wrote that Trump […] The post Judge places partial gag order on Donald Trump in N.Y. hush-money case first appeared on Gephardt Daily.