The rule of law is not just some lawyer's turn of phrase. It is the very foundation of our democracy.

The essence of the rule of law is that like cases are treated alike, that there not be one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans, one rule for the powerful, another for the powerless, one rule for the rich, and another for the poor, or different rules depending upon one's race or ethnicity.

To serve as attorney general at this critical time is the calling I am honored and eager to answer.

So yeah, now it's clean up on aisle 45 time, and for a long while yet it is going to be clean up on aisle 45.

Welcome episode 142 clean up on aisle 45. It's Wednesday, October 11th, and I'm your host, Pete Stark.

We have lots of news this week, always, including updates on the New York Trump Organization civil fraud trial, lots of stuff going on there, lots of witness questioning happening, and we have lots of filings in the Fountain County D.A. election interference case as well.

Plus, George Santos's campaign treasurer has pled guilty and says she is willing to cooperate with the government in his federal indictment. Don't forget, George Santos has been federally indicted.

And on top of all that, Trump is found to dismiss a few of his lawsuits, as well as a motion to dismiss the Manhattan D.A.'s case against them for falsifying business records.

Plus, we'll cover an IRS lien on Rudy's property for unpaid taxes, the House Republicans in disarray, the seeming recurring story of this podcast, and prosecutors in Arizona now investigating Trump rolled efforts to overturn the 2020 election in that state.

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Thank all of you so much. I am just extraordinarily humbled at the support, and you truly, you are the folks who make this program possible.

You are part of the family that allows us to put this on every week to go through and develop all these stories, and we simply could not do this program without you.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. And with that, let's, Allison, let's head up to New York.

So first thing on deck is we've got a, we've got a gag order. The first one out of all the various BS games that Trump has been playing, pushing the limits of what he's saying online and in speeches.

We finally have a gag order from Judge Arthur Ingram, who rebuked Donald Trump after Trump attacked Ingram's clerk in a social media post last Tuesday.

And Ingram forbade the parties for making any future comments about a staff. And this is from the judges ruling quote, this morning, one of the defendants posted on social media,

an a social media account, a disparaging untrue and personally identifying post about a member of my staff. Although I have since ordered the post deleted, and apparently it was, it was also emailed out to millions of other recipients.

Ingram continued personal attacks of any member of my court staff are unacceptable, inappropriate, and I will not tolerate them.

And so, you know, again, we've been wondering and talking about for several episodes now about what it was going to take for anybody on the on these various trials to be the first to bring any sort of gag order or limitations on Trump pushing the boundaries across the board.

You know, this is the first I don't think it'll be the last and, you know, in DC, you know, Judge Chutkin, I think is very close to potentially ruling or putting some sort of limits.

But, you know, this was one of those red lines. I mean, you can you can push your luck if you're talking about the judge or if you're talking about a prosecutor.

But when you go after a professional staff, somebody who is not an elected official or an appointed official, you're really crossing into off limits territory. And it was it was not at all surprising to me that Judge Engron imposed this gag order.

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