for the second time on Wednesday after he again appeared to violate the order by making an apparent reference to his top clerk in
Trump’s lawyer Christopher Kise argued Thursday that Engoron had misinterpreted Trump’s comments and was impinging on his right to free speech. "I’ll reconsider the sanctions decision, because I do want to see the clip and the transcript," Engoron said.Trump, the frontrunner for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic President Joe Biden in the 2024 U.S. election, is accused in the lawsuit by Democratic New York Attorney Letitia James ofIn his comments to reporters on Wednesday, Trump said "this judge is a very partisan judge, with a person who's very partisan sitting alongside of him.
It is standard practice in New York state court for clerks to sit next to judges, with the witness box on the other side. Engoron imposed the gag order on Oct. 3 after Trump shared on social media the name and photo of the judge’s top clerk and suggested she was politically biased. He had