On Thursday, a New York appellate court rejected Donald Trump‘s appeal of a gag order as part of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s hush-money case in which the former president has been convicted and faces sentencing later this year.
A panel of the mid-level state Appellate Division disagreed with Trump’s contention that the conclusion of the trial resulted in a “change in circumstances” warranting an end to the entire gag order, said a decision.
Judge Juan Merchan did remove limits on what Trump could say about trial witnesses and the jury after the verdict in late May, but kept restraints on comments about court staff, the DA’s staff, and family members of court staff and prosecutors.
Bragg’s team made submissions that demonstrated “threats received by District Attorney staff after the jury verdict continued to pose a significant and imminent threat,” the…
