The judge overseeing the ridiculous 2020 election case just lifted the gag order she placed on Trump after Jack Smith requested teh gag order due to Trump’s posts on Trump Social.
Judge Tanya Chutkan lifted the gag order late Friday after Trump’s lawyers requested an extended stay.
Here’s more from the New York Post:
District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Friday temporarily lifted the gag order she issued against former President Donald Trump earlier this week that prevented him from criticizing prosecutors, court staff or their families.
Chutkan, who is overseeing the 77-year-old former president’s 2020 election interference case, stayed the partial gag order, which also barred Trump from discussing potential witnesses or testimony, in order to give his defense team and the Justice Department more time to file briefs related to 2024 Republican presidential candidate’s request for an extended pause of the order.
“Upon consideration of Defendant’s opposed 110 Motion for Stay Pending Appeal, Request for Temporary Administrative Stay, and Memorandum in Support, it is hereby ORDERED that the court’s 105 Opinion and Order is administratively STAYED to permit the parties’ briefing and the court’s consideration of Defendant’s Motion,” Chutkan, 61, wrote in a short brief.
She further ordered that special counsel Jack Smith’s team file any opposition to Trump’s motion for an extended stay of the gag order by Oct. 25, and that Trump’s team respond by Oct. 28.
Attorneys for Trump appealed the gag order to the DC Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday.
On Friday, they urged Chutkan to freeze the order while the appeals process plays out.
“No Court in American history has imposed a gag order on a criminal defendant who is campaigning for public office — least of all, on the leading candidate for President of the United States,” Trump’s lawyers argued in their motion.
Mark Levin responded to the news saying “Idiot Obama judge stays her own unconstitutional gag order on Trump to consider objections raised by Trump’s lawyers.”
He’s right. It’s almost like she knows the gag order she imposed on Trump is unconstitutional and now maybe she’s going to backtrack. The final deadline for all of the ‘consideration’ is next Saturday.