Good evening. I'm Amman Abbas. Jeff Bennett is away on the news hour tonight.

Former President Trump ramps up criticism of the judge presiding over his 2020 election

criminal case, as the legal battle between his lawyers and the Justice Department takes

shape. Ohio voters decide whether to increase the threshold for new constitutional amendments,

a move that could decide the fate of an upcoming abortion vote. And Cinegia faces growing scrutiny

for its harsh treatment of migrants, Alala Haile traveled route from Africa to Europe.

Over 300 people are still currently trapped at the Tunisia Libya border in the desert and they've

been trapped there for weeks.

Former President Donald Trump's legal battle is picking up steam with his lawyers rushing to meet

a court-imposed deadline today. Trump and his legal team responded to special counsel Jack Smith's

request that the judge issue a protective order, limiting what the former president could say

publicly about the trial. In a filing today, Trump's lawyers pushed back, saying, quote,

the government seeks to restrict first amendment rights.

Worse, it does so against its administration's primary political opponent during an election season.

This all comes on the heels of Trump's attorney, John Loro, making the rounds on several Sunday

network shows, aiming to reset the narrative and defense of his client. Following all of this,

closely is former federal prosecutor Renato Marriotti. We're not good to see you, so we know

Trump's lawyers said they would oppose the protective order they've now done so,

claiming it would violate Mr. Trump's first amendment rights. What do you make of that argument?

Well, I think that it's a kind of a coating around what their actual argument is.

If you actually read the full filing, the really is a dispute about the scope of a protective

order. It's a fairly mundane dispute, fairly narrow dispute, but it's dressed up in all this

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