Weeks after the conclusion of his Manhattan trial for falsified business records, former President Donald Trump remains subject to the gag order imposed by Judge Juan Merchan in that matter. And New York’s highest court has now declined to take up his appeal of the order on an expedited basis.
New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals found that the order does not raise “substantial” constitutional issues that would warrant an immediate intervention.
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Trump’s attorneys filed a notice of appeal with the state’s high court on May 15, during the former president’s landmark criminal trial. They argued that the gag order restricted Trump’s “core political speech on matters of central importance at the…
