Trump appeals gag order in New York "hush money" trial
Source: CBS News/AP
May 15, 2024 / 9:50 PM EDT
Former President Donald Trump is seeking to have New York's highest court intervene in his fight over a gag order that has seen him fined $10,000 and threatened with jail for violating a ban on commenting about witnesses, jurors and others connected to his hush money criminal trial.
The former president's lawyers filed a notice of appeal Wednesday, a day after the state's mid-level appellate court refused his request to lift or modify the restrictions. The filing was listed on a court docket, but the document itself was sealed and not available. Trump presidential campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said it's a request for the state's Court of Appeals to take up the matter.
"President Trump has filed a notice to appeal the unconstitutional and un-American gag order imposed by conflicted Judge Juan Merchan in the lawless Manhattan DA case," Cheung said in a statement. "The threat to throw the 45th President of the United States and the leading candidate in the 2024 presidential election in jail for exercising his First Amendment rights is a Third World authoritarian tactic typical of Crooked Joe Biden and his comrades," Cheung said.
A five-judge panel of the mid-level appeals court, the Appellate Division of the state's trial court, ruled Tuesday that Merchan "properly determined" that Trump's public statements "posed a significant threat to the integrity of the testimony of witnesses and potential witnesses in this case as well."
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-appeals-gag-order-new-york-hush-money-trial/
Think. Again.
(9,483 posts)...understand his going to stiff them for all these billable hours, do they?
NanaCat
(2,028 posts)At least one of his lawyers is a real trial lawyer, and trial lawyers know how criminals are. That's why they demand payment up front from their (allegedly) criminal clients. It's called a retainer, and most defence lawyers require one before they agree to represent someone charged with a felony.
When you hear about the RNC paying for lawyers? That's them paying retainers, to get TSF represented at all. Nobody with any kind of competence would represent him without a retainer.
Think. Again.
(9,483 posts)...to absorb all the constant appeals and motions.
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AZLD4Candidate
(5,896 posts)Hong Konger or Taiwanese in heritage.
Most mainlanders use Pinyin, which is why Hisao in Taiwan is Xiao on the Mainland.
Botany
(70,784 posts)
.. being unconstitutional because the right to fair trial is right there in the Constitution
and the judges gag order was issued in order to protect just that however the SCOTUS
hasnt been bound by the Constitution for years.
bucolic_frolic
(43,798 posts)CincyDem
(6,449 posts)Haste being defined by SCOTUS and their calendar for his immunity claim. Oral arguments set for late June with a ruling by Halloween.
iluvtennis
(19,977 posts)Harker
(14,184 posts)bigmonk
(59 posts)I really don't understand appeals courts. I would think that whoever was appealing would have to present solid evidence of misconduct before the appeals court would even listen to them.
Justice matters.
(6,982 posts)It needs a "real justice for all" update.
Firestorm49
(4,053 posts)wants the gag order removed so that he can intimidate whomever he wants? Hes no more than a two bit crook, and thats why hes a defendant sitting in court - and not even that good of a crook. What planet is this abomination of a man boy living on?
sakabatou
(42,264 posts)live love laugh
(13,310 posts)There is no storming or press conferences at Rikers.
lark
(23,278 posts)What would the fascist 6 do if this came to them? They already have their hands on the scales, tilting them to tsf, would they go even further? No telling with these 6 far right threats to our country.
Justice matters.
(6,982 posts)lark
(23,278 posts)Pas-de-Calais
(9,923 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(146,619 posts)NanaCat
(2,028 posts)TSF appeals the same old shite, different day.
twodogsbarking
(10,153 posts)His entire adult life has been this way. He wears down his oponent with legal costs and they give in.
That is in essence how he got Mar a lago. Palm Beach County couldn't afford to fight him. People
really disliked Trump there back as far as 1990. He bullied the county. It is his MO. He is very good at being bad.