It took less than 24 hours after Judge Arthur Engoron ordered Ivanka Trump to testify in the financial fraud trial swamping the Trump Organization in a Manhattan courtroom for Donald Trump to blow his top and lash out at the jurist.On Friday, Engoron ruled that the president's oldest daughter must o...
“some reason” being the “first amendment”.
You try it and see how far the 1st amendment gets you. Most defendants don’t get to trash the judge with no consequences.
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People keep saying this but from what I can tell “gag orders” aren’t common.
They’re not common but they’re also not rare. More often, defendants are not incredibly corrupt loudmouth morons, don’t have any public following, or are in jail, and it’s not needed.
You know that a gag order is a specific restriction on free speech that courts can issue, right? That’s literally what they are for.
The gag order doesn’t apply to Judge Engoron. Both he and Judge Chutkan in the DC case specifically exempted themselves from being covered by their respective gag orders. The logic is that the 1st Amendment protects criticism of federal judges. He can’t, however, threaten federal judges, so it’ll be interesting to see how far he pushes it. Unfortunately, in the past he’s shown a surprising amount of restraint in skating just up to the line, but not actually crossing it.
They don’t allow a judge to declare whatever they want. Trump is appealing one of his gag orders and will likely be successful in part.
Judges can’t simply do whatever they want.
Gag orders on indicted felons who can’t shut up are extremely common. He isn’t likely to prevail on that.
They can’t stop him from saying just anything, gag orders need to be narrow and serve a justice purpose.
That’s why part of the gag is likely to be changed as its overly broad.
They haven’t prevented him from saying anything. They prevent him from attacking witnesses and court employees which is well within scope of a gag order.
Which isn’t what this thread was talking about at the start…
“Congress shall make no law…”.
This is the judiciary: different branch of government.
The executive could also issue an order that restricts free speech and not violate the first amendment.
The court cannot violate the freedom of speech willy nilly. It must serve the purpose of justice being served.