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Trump ‘does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases,’ Judge Chutkan says, issuing gag order
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Posted on 10/16/2023 12:35:06 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
CNN — A federal judge on Monday issued a gag order on former President Donald Trump, limiting what he can say about special counsel Jack Smith’s federal prosecution into his alleged attempt to subvert in the 2020 presidential election.
The order restricts Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff. The order did not impose restrictions on disparaging comments about Washington, DC, – where the jury will take place – or certain comments about the Justice Department at large, both of which the government requested.
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TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; electioninterference; firstamendment; freespeech; harassment; kangaroocourt; persecution; tanyachutkan
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I read that bolded part and thought "excuse me?". *Who* requested that?
At least the judge was smart enough to deny that--blatant denial of rights if she had.
To: Tench_Coxe
If she had allowed it, I should say.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:36:06 PM PDT
by
Tench_Coxe
(The woke were surprised by the reaction to the Bud Light fiasco. May there be many more surprises)
To: Tench_Coxe
Same game that was ran on Paxton in Texas.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:36:07 PM PDT
by
BigFreakinToad
(Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
To: Tench_Coxe
both of which the government requested....................
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:36:08 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
To: Tench_Coxe
The old saying was “go ahead, it’s a free country.”
Not so.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:36:25 PM PDT
by
frank ballenger
(“My job is to inform, not to convince.” St. Bernadette Soubirous )
To: Tench_Coxe
Kangaroo court of an illegitimate government. Dark times.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:36:33 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Tench_Coxe
America
2023
The tree of liberty thirsts.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:37:14 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
To: ClearCase_guy
Big talk, but no one is game. Apparently, people haven’t lost enough of their past freedoms.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:38:52 PM PDT
by
CatOwner
To: Tench_Coxe
But the persecution can leak anything they want to the NYT anytime they want to.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:40:04 PM PDT
by
central_va
(I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
To: Tench_Coxe
Trump ‘does not have the right to say and do exactly what he pleases,’ Judge Chutkan says, issuing gag order Does President Trump think he lives in America or something?
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:41:11 PM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
To: Tench_Coxe
All judicial gag orders violate the First Amendment.
To: Tench_Coxe
Putting President Trump on trial is Washington DC is denying him a jury of his peers.
Jury's in DC always consist of leftists government workers and/or vengeful chocolate drops.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:43:32 PM PDT
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Lord, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
To: Round Earther
All gag orders should be against the prosecution. None at all against the defendant.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:45:02 PM PDT
by
cyclotic
(It's a great time to live in America. It's like the collapse of the Roman Empire except with wi-fi)
To: frank ballenger
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:45:23 PM PDT
by
FES0844
To: ifinnegan
Yep, absolutely. And I think without question the domestic enemies will find him "guilty" on a number of their BS charges and he will be sent to prison and when that happens, how the public reacts will tell us if the USA will then nose dive into a full blown tyranny, or it will it be stopped by patriots doing their duty like generations before. Sadly I think they won't do anything.
"whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:46:18 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
To: central_va
Trump can leak anything he wants as well - just have someone not covered by the gag order do it. As long as neither Trump himself or any of his lawyers involved in the trial do it personally, his campaign can say whatever they wish.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:47:48 PM PDT
by
CA Conservative
(Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, I am free at last)
And with that, President Trump’s poll numbers will go even higher.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:48:56 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Democrats should have been barred from elections since The Battle Of Athens.)
To: central_va
Hypocrites, the whole lot of them!
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:48:56 PM PDT
by
No name given
(Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
To: Tench_Coxe
The order restricts Trump’s ability to publicly target court personnel, potential witnesses, or the special counsel and his staff.
Hey, that is our job. There is work to do.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:49:14 PM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: Tench_Coxe
Trump’s being accused of interfering in the 2020 election by the people who stole the 2020 election and are deliberately interfering in the 2024 election.
Deranged Smith and FOUR BLACK STOOGES, Willis, James, Bragg, and Sh!tkan.
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posted on
10/16/2023 12:49:33 PM PDT
by
euram
(allALL)
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