[God_Country_Trump_Guns]

There is nothing “bizarre” about this. American Bar Association model rules (rule 3.6, specifically) prohibit a lawyer from making extrajudicial statements where it has a “substantial likelihood” of prejudicing the proceedings.

Lawsuits are litigated in courts of law, not courts of public opinion. And where one lawyer is constantly in the news, and his every utterance is covered by the media, the judge is well within his rights to issue a gag order to protect the integrity of the legal proceeding.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibility/publications/model_rules_of_professional_conduct/rule_3_6_trial_publicity/

[DesertRhino]

But only one saide may not be gagged while the other is free to prejudice juries as much as they please. It is bizarre, and it has a political purpose. It is intended to silence him in his efforts to explain voter fraud.

That is probably all the lawsuit was intended to do. Produce this one gag order. In 4 weeks it would be dropped before the first motions were ever heard, much less before discovery.

[wiseprince]

The law is a joke and to follow a court order in this climate is the way to lose all freedoms. I’m beyond accepted the rule of judges. A free people must be free to speak above all.

[Rockingham]

The rule is so fraught with exceptions and First Amendment considerations that it is rarely invoked and frequently voided when it is. Lin Wood is right to complain.

[ifinnegan]

Why do you advocate the may not respond to articles about him in Mother Jones, Atlanta Journal Constitution or New York Times?

[dadfly]

“gag order” not bizarre?

nubie. well that’s an opinion really, so i’ll give my two cents: at a minimum any “gag order” in our nation is bizarre. you sound like a lawyer, maybe you should just re-read the 1st Amendment.

just coming here and citing yet another corrupt group of “consensus” based, failed professional experts, you got a long way to go in order to understand why our nation is in the fix is in and why the fix is going in from our ruling elites, like the ones you cite.

anonymously attacking a regular patriot like Lin Wood ad hominem, who walks his talk fearlessly, will get nothing but suspicion about your true motives from me.

[WhattheDickens?]

RE “prohibit a lawyer from making extrajudicial statements where it has a “substantial likelihood” of prejudicing the proceedings.”
Needs to be enforced against both litigants. Gagging one side is ... normal for Democrats.