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A federal appeals court panel appeared poised to significantly narrow a gag order imposed against Donald Trump by the judge presiding over his Washington, D.C. criminal trial.
The three-judge D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel raised concerns that the order — which bars Trump from targeting witnesses, prosecutors and courthouse staff in the criminal case related to his effort to subvert the 2020 election — created murky restrictions that stifled the former president’s right to push back against his detractors, particularly in the heat of a presidential campaign.
Judge Patricia Millett, an appointee of President Barack Obama, suggested the gag order could amount to a straitjacket for Trump if his prosecution became the focus of attacks during a presidential debate.
During the two-hour oral argument, Millett declared, “He has to speak ‘Miss Manners’ while everyone else is throwing targets at him? It would be really hard in a debate, when everyone else is going at you full bore. Your attorneys would have to have scripted little things you can say.”
Another appeals judge, Nina Pillard, who was also appointed by Obama, suggested on at least five occasions that the trial judge’s order goes too far by appearing to bar Trump from making hostile comments about individuals in the public eye who could be witnesses in the case, Politico explained.
“It’s unclear whether the appeals court panel intends to rewrite the gag order itself or send it back to Chutkan with new instructions,” Politico wrote.
‘A careful scalpel’: Appeals court signals it will cut back on Trump’s federal gag order https://t.co/jMQtMI6V3f
— POLITICO (@politico) November 20, 2023
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