Federal Appeals Upholds Chutkan Gag Order in Jack Smith January 6 Case Against Trump – Trump Responds
The DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday largely upheld but narrowed Judge Tanya Chutkan’s gag order against Trump in Jack Smith’s bogus election interference case.
“We agree with the district court that some aspects of Mr. Trump’s public statements pose a significant and imminent threat to the fair and orderly adjudication of the ongoing criminal proceeding, warranting a speech-constraining protective order,” the DC appeals court ruled, according to NBC News. “The district court’s order, however, sweeps in more protected speech than is necessary. For that reason, we affirm the district court’s order in part and vacate it in part.”
Trump’s lawyers have been fighting Chutkan’s gag order since she first imposed it last month.
The gag order prevented Trump from criticizing Jack Smith or any of his prosecutors or staffers,
