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So far we’ve had Judge Chutkan impose a gag order to keep Trump from criticizing her and her people, and now we have another judge who decided to impose a gag order on Trump’s lawyers.
At this rate how long until there’s a gag order on half the country?
A New York judge ruled Friday that a limited gag order on Donald Trump should also apply to his attorneys, citing their remarks about his staff and the deluge of threats and harassment directed at his office since the former president’s fraud trial began.
“The threat of, and actual, violence resulting from heated political rhetoric is well-documented,” Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron wrote in a fiery court order Friday afternoon.
Innovatively, this is a gag order prohibiting pointing out shady behavior by the judge.
Friday’s order prohibits attorneys in the case from making any public statements, in or out of court, about confidential communications between the judge and his staff. But they can still refer to the clerk in the context of court schedules and procedure.
What does that involve?
Engoron’s newest order singled out two of Trump’s lawyers, Christopher Kise and Alina Habba, for making what he said were “repeated, inappropriate remarks” about the same clerk Trump attacked.
Kise and Habba say their chief complaint is the judge’s habit of using handwritten notes to communicate with his law clerk, which Kise said creates “an appearance of impropriety.”
The clerk sits to Engoron’s right, opposite the witness box. Passing written notes allows them to communicate without disrupting the proceedings.
And what horrifying threats did the newly gagged lawyers make?
Nonetheless, Kise has tried to paint the notes as something sinister and conspiratorial, as if the law clerk is a puppet master.
“There is someone else who is sending you information on a very, very frequent basis,” he said to Engoron in court Thursday.
The game that’s being played here is very familiar to conservatives. And especially anyone involved in the old online SJW wars. Someone criticizes lefty overreaches in the most moderate terms. The lefty in question claims to be in hiding and terrified of death threats. Immediately the entire argument is deemed to be off-limits.
Obviously, this only works one way.
Engoron is claiming that he needs to gag lawyers for making restrained remarks about his behavior because other people might then send threats to his office. Considering the nature of politics today, I don’t doubt that death threats have come in, but death threats would be coming in anyway considering the nature of the case. Gagging defense counsel because some people are sending death threats is the kind of rationale that provides an open-ended argument for silencing everyone involved in the case because someone, somewhere, might be inspired to send death threats.
And then why even have a trial, when the judge can just go straight to the sentence.
Kafka’s “The Trial”, one of the best books I ever read.
Making people shut up is essential to the leftist and their cause. History has shown to what extent they will go to make people shut up and it ain’t pretty.
And the American Bar Association is outraged over this Jamaican judge’s attack on the American legal profession, right? Heck No, just crickets. They’re all in on the savaging of the rule of law.
ABA is run by Democrat lefties,
I’ve found it fascinating how so many average Joe’s often ignore the implications of these gag orders. We’re literally witnessing the death of a nation in real time and many can’t be bothered to notice. Just don’t mess with their ‘Black Friday’ deals. Pfft!
its dead. no one lifted a finger. we are in hell pretending we are still alive.
no patriots here, just confused cowards.
“Oh, fortunate New York, to have such a perspicacious jackass for a judge!”
You can take Trump and shove him up your ass. The sooner Trump goes to jail which he sadly won’t the sooner you can realise what is what.
The more time I spend with Trump the more time I spend regretting time spent with Trump.
Trump can just go to jail. it’s where he belongs and maybe he’d shut up and do something for a change.
Trump sadly won’t go to jail where he belongs because he really does belong there. Along with Crispy Creme.
I think we need to move the entire political class including Farage to an island prison somewhere.
Then it will really work out well. Not.
If NY dumbasses don’t realise Trump is compromised by now they’re probably not going to realise.
Sick of hearing about him.
The only person that makes me more sick is Mike Johnson.
Trump can fly off to the nether regions somewhere. He did nothing for us. His ego did less than any Republican we can imagine except for Jerusalem. That’s about the only thing you can say for him that Jeb Bush might not have done.
Victor Hanson compares him to Shane. He’s not not Shane. He’s a complete piece of trash.
And he’s going down mainly because he’s too stupid to understand the world his ego lives in isn’t the world his ego was accustomed to.
I wish we had a Reagan. Instead we have this Trump idiot.
The guy couldn’t light a match if you gave him instructions. It;s not about him.
What has Trump had to say lately except electioneering garbage? Nothing. There’s nothing there except this wouldn’t have happened if he was in office. Nothing.
He would deport everybody if he was in office but then the media would give him flak so he couldn’t. Major headlines though.
Just absolutely nothing except DeSantis is disloyal for making Florida the happy home of Trumpf supporters.
Disloyal to what huh?
He;s said not one memorable thing because he has nothing of substance to say.
We might as well have some AI generated opposition. That’s where we’re headed.