This is the Michael Popoc Legal AF1.

Justice of the New York Appellate Division First Department,

intermediary appellate court issued a stay,

blocking the gag order, two of them,

against Donald Trump that have been imposed by the trial judge,

Judge Angoran, in the New York Attorney General Civil Fraud case to stop Donald

Trump from violently attacking and referencing and bashing Judge Angora and Steph, and in particular the

principal law clerk, which has gathered a lot of, gained a lot of the ire and focus of right wing extremists who continue to

attack her mercilessly because she happens to be a Democrat and once ran to be a judge. Let me bring it full circle. What happened and what happened

procedurally and what happens next? When a party wants to appeal an issue, they

have to go to the first level of appeal in New York and

that for the Manhattan courthouses is the first department appellate division.

I'm a member of the first department appellate division down on Madison Avenue and you if you file there you may and you may request a stay of a pending order and that's exactly what Donald Trump did earlier today.

That led to an emergency hearing, an interesting assignment, it went to Associate Justice

David Friedman.

Why is that interesting?

Because that's the very same judge back in September

who also stayed temporarily for about 10 days.

The trial, or the beginning of the trial, of the civil fraud case itself.

Now, in that case, he did the same thing he did here.

He administratively, temporarily interim basis stayed the trial here the order on the gag order and then he

allowed the full panel what we call the merits panel, to get full briefing, have oral argument, and make

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