"The defendant has the right to free speech, but that right is not absolute"...
Posted on 08/11/2023 9:57:03 AM PDT by DFG
On Friday, Judge Tanya Chutkan ruled against Biden prosecutors, saying that not all pre-trial information would fall under a protective order that would prevent Trump from speaking about the 2020 election case brought forth by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
While not all information would fall under the protective order, only information that was designated as sensitive, she agreed with the prosecution that witness interviews and transcripts that were collected during the grand jury’s investigation would be considered sensitive," according to Fox News.
"The defendant has the right to free speech, but that right is not absolute," Chutkan said at the beginning of the Friday morning hearing in Washington, DC. "Without a protective order, a party could release that info to the jury pool."
Federal prosecutor Thomas Windom said the gag order was necessary to prevent the "improper dissemination of materials … including to the public."
"The defendant has set forth an intention to set forth any information that they deem informative," Windom said.
"Defense has broadcast their strategy, and that is not to try this case in this courtroom, and your honor should address that."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
I think?
A bone thrown to Trump to create the illusion of fairness…
She had no choice..If she shut Trump down and some “”items”” were leaked to the NYT,it would make her look bad...Annnd her only other choice would be to shut everyone down and she didn’t want to do that to the prosecutor...
hahahaha.
They are NOT going to like what Trump will have to say.
Oooh, "sensitive" evidence.
Secret evidence equals secret trials.
I still don’t trust her.
Beware of democommies bearing gifts..
It’s a trap..
A set up....
Not above the board...
Dems want Trump talking as much as possible because so many voters are turned off by his political reality show.
Items leaked to the NYT that would help Trump? The NYT bury any such leak.
I mean really, what is the point? Hunter gets convicted and daddy immediately pardons him. Is the point to just waste taxpayers money on this crap. Every politician is corrupt, they don’t get where they are without taking a few good people out of the game, including Trump, Reagan etc.
If it goes on the NYT,the intrepid citizen journalists would sniff it out and there would be hell to pay....That is the beauty of conservatives...There are now thousands of James O “ Keefe wannabes sitting at computers and venturing out to get the story.....
"The defendant has the right to free speech, but that right is not absolute"...
Orders such as this apparently are commonly used to protect witnesses and investigative methods. It’s not a gag order.
YUP
The Rasta Racist “judge” is feelin the heat of the spotlight
So a coupla freebies and then WHAM! You guilty of Wrongthink, Orange Man!
The NeverTrump troll speaks.
Gotta throw out a carrot once in a while. Masters at carrot throwing.
But will it have any effect?
She only made this call because she doesn’t want the case being taken away from her. She’s still a Trump-hater.
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