2y ago

Judge reinstates Trump gag order in Jan. 6 case

abcnews.go.com

The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case has reinstated the gag order she imposed following a stay.

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Why was it ever dropped to begin with? That shithead’s mouth should be wired shut permanently.
- Wasn't.
  It was put on hold while both sides argued for and against it.
  The prosecutor won the argument and the hold was removed.
However, details of Chutkan’s ruling were not immediately available due to an outage of the court’s system that makes filings and rulings available to the public. [From Politico]
Which means that we don't yet know if she also modified his conditions of release or modified the scope of the gag order.
- Good point. What's the over/under that it stricter?
  
  CNN is reporting that the information comes as a brief entry in a docket between 6:30 PM and 7:00 PM on a Sunday.
  The timing indicates that there's a "sense of urgency" about it, possibly to get it on the record before the Trump family takes the stand all week in New York, where you know there's going to be hallway commentary multiple times a day.
  Stricter? I don't think it's likely that the scope of Chutkan's gag order will change. It's possible that the scope will be more specifically clarified. The real question is whether Chutkan will modify Trump's conditions of release to include this gag order. That should happen, so that when he violates it, the law states that his pre-trial release is terminated.
  Note that I said "the law says" and not "he will go to detention pending trial." Because no matter what anyone says, he will never see any real consequences for anything he ever does.
  
  When did this over/under thing become popular in Lemmy? It's the second time I see it this week.
Lock him up!
Over/under on how long until she throws his fat ass in jail?
Who’s going to change his diaper if he’s in jail? Who’s going to smuggle his makeup and hairspray?
Fucking AND!?
- She'll confiscate all of his Halloween candy when he violates the order.
  Judge Chutkan means business, you see.
  At least she's not just completely spiking the case like Judge Cannon. Pretty amazing how the whole nuclear-secrets-on-the-shitter story just sank into irrelevance when it became clear he was going to skate on it.
  
  We've been sucking down the hopium like a Hollywood starlet at a snow party...

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