Federal appeals court temporarily pauses Trump gag order
President Donald J. Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2020, en route to Erie International Airport in Erie, Pennsylvania. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)
Katelynn Richardson
Daily Caller News Foundation
A federal appeals court temporarily paused the gag order against former President Donald Trump in his 2020 election case on Friday.
The Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia temporarily paused the order issued Oct. 17 by District Judge Tanya Chutkan to allow time to consider Trump’s request for a longer freeze on its enforcement pending appeal. The court ordered Trump’s appeal to be expedited, requesting briefing from Trump’s legal team by Nov. 8 and scheduling oral arguments for Nov. 20.
“The purpose of this administrative stay is to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” the appeals court wrote in its order.
Chutkan’s gag order, which she issued at the request of Special Counsel Jack Smith, blocks the former president from making public statements “targeting” Smith or his staff, the defense counsel or their staff, court staff and witnesses.
BREAKING: The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stayed Trump’s gag order. Oral arguments are scheduled for Nov. 20 before a panel including Judges Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard, Obama appointees, and Judge Bradley Garcia, a Biden appointee.https://t.co/gKYIhMTpDT
— Katelynn Richardson (@katesrichardson) November 3, 2023
Trump asked the appeals court Thursday night to pause Chutkan’s order, calling it a “sweeping, viewpoint-based prior restraint on the core political speech of a major Presidential candidate.”
“The Gag Order silences public criticism of quintessential public figures—speech entitled to the highest level of First Amendment protection,” Trump’s attorneys wrote. “The Special Prosecutor and his team are high-level government officials who volunteered for highest-profile criminal case in modern history, and thus ‘thrust’ themselves ‘into the vortex of this public issue.’”
Trump’s appeal notes that “no court in American history has imposed a gag order on a criminal defendant who is actively campaigning for public office.”
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