D.C. Judge Largely Shoots Down DOJ Motion in Trump Election Case

Former President Donald Trump can access mountains of sensitive evidence—with tight restrictions—but he cannot scare witnesses involved in the federal criminal case against him for his attempted 2021 coup, a federal judge ruled on Friday.

District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan said Friday that she would mostly adopt the Trump legal team’s proposal for a protective order limiting how much the former president can say about the evidence against him in the D.C. case over Trump’s efforts to overturn the election. Chutkan said she would not subject Trump to a gag order about “non-sensitive” information because the Department of Justice didn’t make it clear why that material needed special protection.. “At this point, I’m not persuaded that the government has shown good cause to subject to the protective order all the information in this case.”

Trump’s legal team seems to be preparing to argue that Trump’s actions in trying to overturn the 2020 election were covered by his First Amendment rights of free speech, so while this protective order battle over what Trump can publicly say about the evidence against may seem small, it is a meaningful battle in their legal war.

The DOJ wanted to impose broad restrictions on what Trump could share about the case against him after heChutkan eased limitations on how Trump could see the evidence against him collected by Department of Justice Special Counsel Jack Smith but still kept certain interviews marked “sensitive” to limit the potential danger, according to

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