Judge narrows Trump’s gag order, allowing him to criticize witnesses who testified against him at hush money trial

Judge narrows Trump’s gag order, allowing him to criticize witnesses who testified against him at hush money trial

Trump’s lawyers had requested that Justice Juan Merchan retract the gag order entirely, saying it violates his First Amendment rights and is no longer necessary in the wake of Trump’s conviction in late May of falsifying business records to cover up a hush money payment to a porn star.

Merchan kept one provision of the gag order in place until Trump’s July 11 sentencing. That provision bars Trump from making public statements about court staff, prosecutors working for District Attorney Alvin Bragg, and family members of people connected to the case. Trump remains free, as he always has been, to criticize Bragg himself and the judge.

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Judge Merchan faces heavy task with historic Trump sentencing in JulyJordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
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