Court Signals It Could Keep but Narrow Trump Election Case Gag Order

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A federal appeals court in Washington appeared to signal at a hearing on Monday that it would keep in place at least some version of the gag order placed on former President Donald J. Trump in the criminal case accusing him of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/us/politics/trump-gag-order-election-court-case.html

 

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At the hearing, the three judges from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit pushed hard at the argument that Mr. Trump’s social media posts should enjoy absolute protection under the First Amendment as examples of “core political speech.”