With the trial over, former President Donald Trump no longer has to sit in the courtroom each day, but even as the first presidential debate approaches, he still can’t speak freely about what happened there.
New York’s highest court declined Tuesday to take up Trump’s appeal, and Bragg’s office insists the gag order is needed through sentencing. Keeping a gag order in place after conviction is exceedingly uncommon, legal experts told the DCNF, noting there is a strong case to be made that doing so violates Trump’s civil rights, especially when there was never much justification for issuing one at all.
“This really goes right to the heart not only of Donald Trump’s First Amendment rights, but the rights of the American people to hear from the candidates running for president,” former federal prosecutor Jonathan Fahey told the DCNF, highlighting that Biden is making…
