Posted on 10/17/2023 10:26:15 AM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2 Here’s the kicker in gag order. It applies to what Jack Smith called “surrogates” in his proposed order. This in effect gags Trump’s campaign spokesmen, advisors, and anyone DOJ/Chutkan views as “others” tied to Trump.
NOT a limited gag order—a contempt trap for Team Trump.
(Excerpt) Read more at twitter.com ...
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸 @julie_kelly2
NEW: Judge Chutkan 3-page gag order which underscores how her interpretation of Trump's posts and comments will dictate whether he violated her order or now. Scary stuff.
"Undisputed?" Must have missed the court vetting of those claims:
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1714312283977916487
Doxx the judge, his family, his friends. Start playing by the left’s rules. Germans failed to fight the Nazis head on in the 1930s. Likewise, we’re failing to fight them now.
Here’s the link. She’s going to make it impossible for any team Trump member or affiliate to discuss the 2020 stolen election or they’ll be jailed for contempt.
sing, dance, celebrate!
UGH, these judges are out of control.
Impeachment charges need to be filed against her immediately. She has no control over free speech. Other Americans are not under her jurisdiction. Their lawyers need to file a complaint against her with circuit court, bar association and congress
People in the employ of the government that abuse the rights of citizens should have all of their rights permanently revoked. No second chances. Just a life sentence in federal pound you in the butt prison.
The deep-state caliphate views leftist black women as the best suicide bombers and jihadis to be used against their political enemies.
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Why should we pay for their upkeep? If convicted, hang them.
There’s an article on Slay saying Trump is not going to abide the gag order. Who does this affirmative action Jamaican biotch think she is.
That leaves it up to We the People.
The 2020 election was stolen. Several states were rife with "registered voters" at nonexistent addresses. Joe Biden is an illegitimate squatter in the White House ... 81 million living American citizens did NOT knowingly and willingly cast exactly one vote each for him.
The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate
What Is a Gag Order and How Is One Enforced?
Gag orders are more typically imposed on defense lawyers
By Charlie Savage, NY Times, Oct. 16, 2023
At issue in the hearing on Monday is whether Judge Tanya S. Chutkan should impose a gag order on former President Donald J. Trump in the federal election subversion case.
Gag orders can forbid people to publicly discuss a case or aspects of it. In this dispute, Jack Smith, the special counsel, has asked Judge Chutkan to bar Mr. Trump from publicly making “disparaging and inflammatory or intimidating” public statements about witnesses, the District of Columbia jury pool, or the judge and prosecutors themselves.
Doing so would raise tricky First Amendment issues as Mr. Trump makes another bid for the White House in a campaign that is partly defined by the criminal cases against him — and in which one of his rivals for the Republican nomination, former Vice President Mike Pence, is also a potential witness.
There is not a lot of precedent to guide Judge Chutkan’s decision. Gag orders are more typically imposed on defense lawyers instead of defendants, who under normal circumstances tend not to talk publicly about their cases out of self-interest.
And gag orders are more typically about preventing the jury from being tainted by hearing about the case outside the courtroom, while Mr. Smith has focused on the risk that Mr. Trump’s attacks may inspire threats or violence against participants in the process.
Like any other judicial order, a gag order that is defied can be treated as a matter of contempt of court. To uphold the court’s authority and otherwise maintain order, judges can order contempt proceedings, which could result in a reprimand, fine or imprisonment.
How contempt proceedings work, however, is very complicated. There is no single rule that regulates what should happen, making it hard to say exactly how it would play out if Judge Chutkan were to impose such an order on Mr. Trump and then decide that he had violated it.
There are different rules for situations in which judges have direct knowledge of the misconduct and those in which they have indirectly heard allegations. Judges can also treat contempt as a civil or a criminal matter depending in part on whether their focus is more to coerce future compliance or to punish past disobedience.
Depending on the factors, judges can sometimes summarily impose a fine of up to $1,000 and a sentence of up to six months in prison. But in other cases, they must seek the appointment of a prosecutor and a jury trial would follow.
In the instance of a trial, a federal rule of criminal procedure states that “if the criminal contempt involves disrespect toward or criticism of a judge, that judge is disqualified from presiding at the contempt trial or hearing unless the defendant consents.”
Charlie Savage writes about national security and legal policy. He has been a journalist for more than two decades.
She has now clearly crossed the line from gagging a criminal defendant to gagging an entire presidential campaign. This is truly unprecedented and clearly unconstitutional. She also appears to lack jurisdiction over those not in NY.
Here’s more!
https://twitter.com/julie_kelly2/status/1714283810463088943
Julie Kelly 🇺🇸
@julie_kelly2
In re-reading Jack Smith’s Jan 6 indictment against Trump and identifying all the “potential witnesses” covered by the gag order, it struck me that the gag order could prevent Trump from talking in any way about the 2020 election.
She’s trying to play her version of “Whack-A-Mole”.
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