Appeals court upholds Trump gag order in election interference case
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🗓️ 9 December 2023
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An appeals court upheld but narrowed a Donald Trump gag order in his federal election interference case.
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Saturday, December 9th, 2023. This is the excerpt. |
| 0:20.0 | Today, what an appeals court said about a Donald Trump gag order in his election |
| 0:27.8 | interference case. Plus Democrats are worried that President Joe Biden is |
| 0:32.4 | not energizing key voters ahead of 2024 and the |
| 0:36.0 | FDA approves new gene therapies for sickle cell. |
| 0:41.6 | Donald Trump will be prohibited from making public comments about witness |
| 0:45.2 | participation in his federal election interference case. That's after an |
| 0:49.5 | appeals court largely upheld a gag order against him yesterday. |
| 0:53.0 | The gag order from U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkin applied to Trump, his lawyers, and prosecutors in the criminal case. |
| 1:00.0 | Trump argued the order violated his First Amendment free speech rights. |
| 1:04.9 | The original gag order restrained them from making public statements that targeted parties, |
| 1:09.2 | lawyers, court and legal staff, and any reasonably foreseeable witness were the substance of their testimony. |
| 1:15.6 | The DC Appeals Court gave Trump more leeway by allowing him and his lawyers to publicly target Special Counsel Jack Smith. |
| 1:22.4 | But it said that Trump, his lawyers, and the prosecution |
| 1:25.6 | won't be allowed to make statements about witness participation in the case. The appeals court also said |
| 1:31.0 | they largely cannot make public statements about lawyers in the case, |
| 1:34.9 | members of the court and lawyer staff, and about lawyer and staff family members. |
| 1:39.5 | But the appeals court's decision also created more leeway there, ruling that those statements are only |
| 1:44.7 | banned if they're intended to materially interfere with lawyer and staff work in the case or |
| 1:50.3 | likely to cause that interference. |
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