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Imposing a Permanent Gag Order on Trump
Front Page Magazine ^
| June 22, 2024
| Daniel Greenfield
Posted on 06/22/2024 1:32:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Gag orders, constitutionally dubious, are meant to protect the integrity of a judicial proceeding.
However, even with the trial over, the gag orders imposed on former President Trump are not going away.
DA Bragg’s office (which had just freed the antisemitic Columbia Hamas rioters) demanded a continuation of the gag order which prohibits him from commenting on the individuals involved in the trial.
Since Trump is also running for president and Biden is spending $50 million to attack him over the various Democrat trials imposed on him, this effectively bans a presidential candidate from debating a campaign issue.
The New York Court of Appeals claimed that “no substantial constitutional question is directly involved” in gagging a presidential candidate when in reality several are involved.
But weasel words like “substantial” and “directly” give away the game.
Imposing a gag order post-trial on a potentially indefinite basis has no legal validity. There is no longer a judicial proceeding to protect. The basis for Bragg’s demands is the DA’s claim that he’s still getting death threats and that Trump may seek revenge. There will be plenty of people who hate Bragg regardless of what Trump says and the rationale that the rhetoric poses a personal risk rather than a risk to a case allows for a permanent gag order.
It also shifts away from protecting judicial proceedings before and during to protecting them afterward, and from restricting speech by a participant in a legal proceeding to restricting speech that political agitators believe threatens them.
How long until the same doctrine is being used to muzzle not just Trump but everyone?
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: danielgreenfield; gagorder; greenfield; hushmoneytrial; merchan; sultanknish; trump; trumpgagorder
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Want to fix what ails the DOJ.? Hunt down Soros and arrest him for sedition and treason against the USA. And make sure you go after those who have taken his money and played his game.
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posted on
06/23/2024 5:14:47 AM PDT
by
unread
(I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the REPUBLIC..!)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
SCOTUS needs tio nuke that gag order.
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posted on
06/23/2024 6:20:44 AM PDT
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Candor7
(Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
To: Candor7
SCOTUS needs to nuke that gag order.I think if they do, it will be after sentencing.
To: butterdezillion
Doesn’t sound like they have. There would be a filing.
Levin has talked about it a time or two.
To: Robert A Cook PE; 100American; 21twelve; 2nd amendment mama; A Conservative Thinker; ...
Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.
Surely even city AG Bragg won't be able to install a permanent gag order on President Trump? Right ?
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posted on
06/23/2024 9:56:03 AM PDT
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texas booster
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To: butterdezillion
I would hope that if that happened SCOTUS would interveneRoberts could deem it a tax.
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posted on
06/23/2024 9:58:21 AM PDT
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Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
As Insane Democrat mediots are so prone to say right now, after Trump’s Trumped UP Phoney felony convictions!
“No one is above the law, even a President nor a [Liberal Lying INsane Judge!”
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posted on
06/23/2024 11:00:10 AM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(If voting made any difference, they wouldn't allow us to vote! Our 6th Jan PROTESTERS stood up! )
To: E. Pluribus Unum
DA Bragg’s office (which had just freed the antisemitic Columbia Hamas rioters) demanded a continuation of the gag order which prohibits him from commenting on the individuals involved in the trial. Since Trump is also running for president and Biden is spending $50 million to attack him over the various Democrat trials imposed on him, this effectively bans a presidential candidate from debating a campaign issue.DA Bragg is Soros bought black trash.
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posted on
06/23/2024 11:18:48 AM PDT
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GOPJ
(Oh, 51 intelligence goons said Biden's NOT 'wired' to hear answers at the debate via a hearing 'aid')
To: E. Pluribus Unum
< restricting speech that political agitators believe threatens them.
This is a total ban on free speech.
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06/23/2024 3:06:02 PM PDT
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oldbrowser
( democrats and Democracy are polar opposites)
To: TalBlack
That's because we are already in Hell.
There ain't no place left to go...
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posted on
06/24/2024 5:24:22 AM PDT
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Aevery_Freeman
(The yoke of government must be kept light if Freedom is to Prevail.)
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