'Ongoing security risks' due to Trump detailed in new Letitia James filing

Late Sunday the office of New York Attorney General Letitia James issued a new filing aimed at tightening up the gag order imposed on Donald Trump citing the continuing flood of threats being faced by court employees and her staff.

According to a report from Newsweek's Sean O'Driscoll, the filing takes pains to point out that the former president's untrammeled attacks are directly responsible "ongoing security risks."

The filing made to the New York First Division Appellate Court makes liberal use of a statement from Charles Hollon, of New York's Judicial Threats Assessment Unit which pointed to, "the hundreds of threatening, harassing, and anti-Semitic messages that Supreme Court and its staff have received as an evident result of the personal attacks that triggered the [gag] orders."

Cleland B. Welton II, an assistant solicitor general in the AG's office wrote Trump's "asserted free-speech injuries are insubstantial in light of the narrow scope of the challenged orders. Those orders do not prevent petitioners or their counsel from criticizing the [New York] Supreme Court, the presiding justice, the plaintiff, the witnesses, or the substance of the proceedings."

Welton also noted, for the court's consideration that the earlier gag order "led to a decrease in the number of threatening messages that the court and its staff received," while asking the court to keep the gag order in place.

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