'Limited chances of success': Legal analyst predicts Trump gag order appeal will flop
Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance doesn't anticipate Donald Trump will do well before the panel of Washington, D.C., judges on Monday as he appeals the gag order issued in one of his four top cases.
"I think he has limited chances of success here. Because this is a very narrowly tailored restraining order," Vance said. "The judge was careful to say that she was not having any intention or any limitation on his rights to engage in political speech. She lets him have broad latitude there. What he cannot do is engage in the kind of comments that could put people in harm's way, folks involved in the court proceedings, or that could impair the integrity of the process. It's a very limited, highly legal sort of restraining order that we are used to seeing engaged in cases like this, where, frankly, a defendant is incapable of avoiding trying their case in public. Cases are meant to be tried in the courtroom."
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There is a similarly narrow gag order in the New York case, in which Trump cannot attack the judge's or court's staff online. It does not include attacking the judge or the attorney general and her office. Trump is also fighting that gag order, and it has been paused while the appeals court considers the matter.
The battle will be live-streamed audio online for the world to hear, substitute host Charles Blow explained.
Vance explained she doesn't think that streaming trials will change the outcome in any way, however.
See her full comments in the video below:
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