(BPR) Donald Trump is under a gag order once again after a federal judge reinstated a previous order she had placed a temporary hold on so the former president could file an appeal.
“U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan issued an order Sunday evening via the court’s online docket, rejecting Trump’s request to set the limits on his public statements aside while he pursues the appeal he’s already filed,” Politico reported. “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.”
Trump took to his social media platform Truth Social to acknowledge the latest development, with the leading 2024 Republican presidential candidate insisting it is unconstitutional.
In a longer reply, Trump accused the judge of being biased and said she should have recused herself from the case.
“I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents,” he wrote.
“This order, according to many legal scholars, is unthinkable! It illegally and unconstitutionally takes away my First Amendment Right of Free Speech, in the middle of my campaign for President, where I am leading against BOTH Parties in the Polls,” Trump continued. “Few can believe this is happening, but I will appeal. How can they tell the leading candidate that he, and only he, is seriously restricted from campaigning in a free and open manner? It will not stand!”
Judge Chutkan imposed a gag order on Oct. 17, after finding that Trump’s statements about the case posed “grave threats to the integrity of these proceedings,” according to CNBC. The Obama-appointed judge put the order on hold last week to consider Trump’s request for a stay of the order, pending his appeal of the restrictions on his speech.
Special counsel Jack Smith has asked a federal judge to reimpose a gag order on Donald Trump in his election interference case in Washington, DC., after accusing the former president of threatening Mark Meadows, who served as his chief of staff.
