Let's find a better candidate without the legal baggage.
They will just charge him again and again until he's locked up, I'm afraid.
Trump will be in prison for seditious conspiracy?? VIDEO
Posted on 05/09/2023 12:29:22 PM PDT by Red Badger
Prosecutors originally claimed they were not seeking a gag order against Trump, rather they just wanted to make sure he did not "misuse" their evidence.
President Donald Trump has been banned by a New York judge from posting on social media concerning evidence in a criminal case related to alleged hush money payments made to Stormy Daniels.
According to Bloomberg, State Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan's ordered that anyone with access to the evidence in the case cannot "copy, disseminate or disclose” the evidence to any third party, including social media, without court approval.
The judge ordered that Trump is only allowed to review “limited” materials “in the presence of defense counsel, but the defendant shall not be permitted to copy, photograph, transcribe or otherwise independently possess the evidence," according to the judge’s order.
The order also states that "any materials and information provided by the People to the Defense in accordance with their discovery obligations ... shall be used solely for the purposes of preparing a defense in this matter."
Additionally, Trump is also forbidden from publicly discussing witnesses or evidence in the case.
The gag order comes as Trump has declared his candidacy for president in 2024 to challenge Joe Biden. Biden remains free to discuss the allegations made in the case against his potential opponent, but the gag order leaves Trump unable to respond.
According to NBC, prosecutors originally claimed they were not seeking a gag order against Trump, rather they just wanted to make sure he did not misuse their evidence. The DA's office wrote in a court filing last month, “Donald J. Trump has a longstanding and perhaps singular history of attacking witnesses, investigators, prosecutors, trial jurors, grand jurors, judges, and others involved in legal proceedings against him, putting those individuals and their families at considerable safety risk.”
They added that the “Defendant has a constitutional right to speak publicly about this case, and the People do not seek to infringe upon that right.”
Last week, lawyers for the former president and current presidential candidate argued in a filing that the DA's requested order would do exactly that writing, “The People’s Proposed Protective Order infringes upon President Trump’s First Amendment right to freely discuss his own character and qualifications for federal office and the First Amendment rights of the American people to hear President Trump’s side of the story.”
The case involves an alleged $130,000 hush money payment to Stormy Daniels to keep her from revealing an alleged affair between her and Trump.
In March, the former president was indicted by a Manhattan grand jury and he has pleaded not guilty to all 34 charges and stated he did not have an extramarital affair.
Last week, Trump’s lawyers also filed paperwork to have the case transferred to federal court.
Did Trump’s attorneys ask for this gag?
No, the prosecutors......................
Trump should do as he pleases, screw the Judge..
Yeah.
Trump needs an ‘unofficial’ spokesperson.
The Judicial Branch is out of control.
The Executive and Legislative Branches need to reign them in.
The fix is in !!
+1
It’s really time to just declare war on New York and California.
Instead of tolerating their governments engaging in astonishing corruption and holding the rest of the country hostage to that, they should just be expelled from the Union.
The rest of the States would remain together. Instead of “seceding”, those two rogue states would just be thrown out of the club. Decertified. Congressional delegation be expelled from the Congress and their seats given to other states.
Some petty Third World wannabe tyrant trying to hold the entire nation hostage from his little seat in NY needs to be extinguished as a force in this country.
Their borders would then become hardened: they would be subject to tariffs and immigration controls. Any military equipment they acquired with federal aid would be confiscated and returned to federal use or distributed to places like Florida or Texas.
They won’t fight. They don’t have people with the will to do that, just vagrants, thugs and opportunists. The few decent Americans left will either leave or seek to overthrow the scum.
They don’t want a union except of their terms. So why bother with the charade.
Many of y’all didn’t mind when the Black-Robed Judiciarchs took away Alex Jones First and Sixth Amendment rights. And I suppose that there are quite a few that don’t mind seeing them taken away from Trump.
But someday, perhaps soon, you will regret it when some Judiciarch takes away YOUR rights, and nobody cares.
Agreed
“Trump should do as he pleases, screw the Judge.”
Agree. Gag orders are in no way actually legal.
Let's find a better candidate without the legal baggage.
They will just charge him again and again until he's locked up, I'm afraid.
Trump will be in prison for seditious conspiracy?? VIDEO
Where is this “better candidate” of which you speak?
It could be a greater benefit to Trump’s attorneys. The prosecution should have let him blab.
IMHO, also shows their “evidence” is paper thin at best.
In this case, it’s not a branch of the federal government that is misbehaving.
So technically speaking not a separation of powers issue.
It is, though, probably a violation of the doctrine of federal supremacy (supremacy of federal law over state law).
IGNORE
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