by Katelynn Richardson
A group of 18 Republican state attorneys general argued Tuesday night that former President Donald Trump’s gag order undermines their citizen’s interest in “hearing from major political candidates” in the coming 2024 election.
The states, led by Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia backing Trump’s appeal of the gag order in his 2020 election case. District Judge Tanya Chutkan “overstepped” her role when she imposed the order, the states argue.
“As administrators of free and fair elections, we have an interest in ensuring no illegal prior restraint is entered against any major political candidate,” the states wrote. “Indeed, our citizens have an interest in hearing from major political candidates in that election. The Order threatens the States’ interests by infringing on President Trump’s free speech rights.”
Chutkan’s order restricts Trump from making public statements targeting Special Counsel Jack Smith or his staff, the defense counsel or their staff, court staff and “any reasonably foreseeable witness or the substance of their testimony” in the case. A carve-out included by Chutkan clarifies that the order “shall not be construed to prohibit Defendant from making statements criticizing the government generally.”
“The judge’s approach for the gag order ignores the fact that the government’s case is political to the core—it’s obvious the other side is stopping at nothing to silence Biden’s political opponent,” Morrisey said in a statement. He noted that even the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) — “an organization on the opposite side of the GOP’s political spectrum” — sided with the former president in opposing the order as a threat to free speech.
“[W]hen political foes join in a common defense, you know there’s something there,” he said.
All Americans have the right to free speech & that includes @realDonaldTrump!
Restricting a political candidate’s free speech while they run for office is a dangerous precedent & a disservice to American voters. But we’re pushing back!
Thanks for your partnership @MorriseyWV! https://t.co/6cL9Ochzbe
— Brenna Bird (@BrennaBird) November 15, 2023
The appeals court temporarily stayed the order Nov. 3 following Trump’s appeal. A three-judge panel will consider his appeal during oral arguments Nov. 20.
Trump argued in his appeal brief that Chutkan’s decision to impose the order violates both his First Amendment rights and the rights of “tens of millions of Americans to engage in and hear core political speech in the middle of an ongoing Presidential campaign.”
The American People have a Right to know the truth a bout t his Witch Hunt against Trump Soros and Bragg need to lose their America Citizenships the same with Gates and Swabe banned from America Period
The gag order(s) are completely unconstitutional.
I was wondering if you would down-vote a Trump quote.
Down-vote your misunderstanding and misuse of it.
We’ll only terminate ‘rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,’ when we decide we need to?
That’s what it means. There’s no other way to understand it.
Provide the sentences spoke by Trump prior to the simple one line quote you keep repeating erroneously, you lying sack of crap.
Meanwhile, Joe Biden has trouble reading from a giant teleprompter and getting it right. Oh, well, Dr. Jill is there to lead him off the stage while you choose to ignore that the dementia has taken over what is left of Joe’s brain.
Why don’t YOU post them? I’ve posted the entire statement half-a-dozen times already, and always get the same “It’s out of context!” crap. This has become the standard response to any crazy thing Trump says. The guy’s eyes could be spinning like pinwheels and you’d still think everything was fine.
The context is Trump’s endless assertions of “massive election fraud,” which are also a load of crap. He’d have to suspend the entire legal system to get what he wants, because every court his puppets filed suits in—whether presided over by republicans or democrats—concluded the “evidence” was totally bogus. It couldn’t even meet the minimal evidentiary standards for admissibility. This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s how courts work.
I don’t care whether Joe Biden serves another term or not. It isn’t about Joe Biden. What matters is that Trump doesn’t.
No, you haven’t. You repeatedly post this one phrase. In context, it’s more than clear that Trump is talking about how all the election fraud is what is destroying Constitutional law. That may impress you, but people with intelligence know how full of shit you are.
Does this not seem vaguely familiar? It should. I’ve posted it many times.
How about the screen shot?
Jamie Dupree………….oh. I’m impressed, NOT.
Is English your second language, Comrade Greggie, because neither you, nor Dupree (who I’m not impressed with) seems to understand what Gosar was saying. Maybe Dupree is stupid. I know you are.
There WAS NO “massive widespread fraud and deception.” There’s no credible evidence of it. Trump’s own people repeatedly told him that and have testified that they did so.
All of the fraud and deception were on the part of Donald Trump, who’s going to get hit with the evidence in Georgia and DC courtrooms.
STATE FARM ARENA.
11/15/23 – Trump’s ‘off the rails’ rhetoric could land him in jail, says former White House lawyer
Being a leading candidate for President is what could land him in jail.
Now, seeing the whole comment, perhaps you have enough intelligence to realize that what he is saying is the election fraud perpetuated by the Democrats means the Constitution is no longer in effect. You understand this, but you have to deny it because that is what supports the Democrat ongoing fraud.
That’s Nathan Blue’s favorite strategy: to say that what we really think is not the same as what we say we think.
It’s just as lame when you do it.
I am trying to give you the benefit of having SOME intelligence. If you want to deny that outright, I’m good with that, too.
Its grandparents day at school.
Yes, that is exactly what the Democrats were trying to accomplish.
Source
There is no Jury pool, and an insane and tainted Judge, who has already said he wasnt there to hear what Trump has to say. No injured parties. Hows that for a countervailing constitutional right to a fair trial. What victims does this effect? Where are these victims. Sounds like your comment cut and paste is moot. Like yourself.
You ignored witnesses and court employees.
Witnesses that fully admit they lied to congress? Some scumbag that illegally recorded his clients, and was butthurt he didnt get a cushy government appointment?
Or some other “witness”? The statement is about the accused getting a fair trial or are you ignoring that?
If you cut and paste you should attempt to comprehend.
ONE person was arrested. Six officers injured, property destroyed, people terrorized, ONE person arrested.