Procrustes Stretched
Dante's Manifesto
- Dec 1, 2008
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Mr. Trump has become a convicted felon, awaiting sentencing. What is at issue: Trump's legal team filed a motion. The prosecution team responded claiming the Trump legal team is not being forthright. And it's about the Manhattan DA's office urging the judge to keep a limited gag order blocking Trump from criticizing jurors who convicted him. That does not come across as unreasonable, except if one ignores the true context and conflates the original order with the limited part(s) being sought.
INTRODUCTION
"The People oppose defendant's motion to immediately and entirely terminate this Court's orders restricting his extrajudicial statements. This Court entered those orders to protect three narrowly defined categories of participants in this criminal proceeding from defendant's inflammatory public attacks. The Appellate Division agreed that these narrow restrictions were appropriate to protect the "fair administration of justice in criminal cases" and to ensure that participants to the criminal proceeding remained "free from threats, intimidation, harassment, and harm." Matter of Trump v. Merchan, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 02680, at *2 (1st Dep't 2024). And just two days ago, the Court of Appeals dismissed defendant's attempt to appeal from the Appellate Division order "upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved." Matter of Trump v. Merchan, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 69661 (N.Y. Ct. App. June 18, 2024). Defendant's demand that this Court precipitously end these protections, even before the sentencing hearing on July 11, is overstated and largely unfounded."
"As a preliminary matter, many of defendant's complaints simply ignore the narrowness of
this Court's orders."
Days after the verdict, they sent a letter to Merchan asking him to lift the gag order. They followed up last week with a formal motion requesting that the restrictions be rescinded. Prosecutors have until Thursday to respond. Merchan is expected to rule soon after that, possibly before Trump’s June 27 debate with President Joe Biden.
“It’s a little bit of the theater of the absurd at this point, right? Michael Cohen is no longer a witness in this trial,” an attorney for Trump, Todd Blanche, told the AP earlier this month. “The trial is over.”
The Manhattan DA is not looking to protect Michael Cohen and other witnesses with a gag order.
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INTRODUCTION
"The People oppose defendant's motion to immediately and entirely terminate this Court's orders restricting his extrajudicial statements. This Court entered those orders to protect three narrowly defined categories of participants in this criminal proceeding from defendant's inflammatory public attacks. The Appellate Division agreed that these narrow restrictions were appropriate to protect the "fair administration of justice in criminal cases" and to ensure that participants to the criminal proceeding remained "free from threats, intimidation, harassment, and harm." Matter of Trump v. Merchan, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 02680, at *2 (1st Dep't 2024). And just two days ago, the Court of Appeals dismissed defendant's attempt to appeal from the Appellate Division order "upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved." Matter of Trump v. Merchan, 2024 N.Y. Slip Op. 69661 (N.Y. Ct. App. June 18, 2024). Defendant's demand that this Court precipitously end these protections, even before the sentencing hearing on July 11, is overstated and largely unfounded."
"As a preliminary matter, many of defendant's complaints simply ignore the narrowness of
this Court's orders."
Days after the verdict, they sent a letter to Merchan asking him to lift the gag order. They followed up last week with a formal motion requesting that the restrictions be rescinded. Prosecutors have until Thursday to respond. Merchan is expected to rule soon after that, possibly before Trump’s June 27 debate with President Joe Biden.
“It’s a little bit of the theater of the absurd at this point, right? Michael Cohen is no longer a witness in this trial,” an attorney for Trump, Todd Blanche, told the AP earlier this month. “The trial is over.”
The Manhattan DA is not looking to protect Michael Cohen and other witnesses with a gag order.
Manhattan DA's office urges judge to keep gag order blocking Trump from criticizing jurors who convicted him
Prosecutors are urging the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s criminal hush money case to uphold a gag order that bars the Republican former president from criticizing jurors, court staff, or members of the prosecution that convicted him. In court papers filed Friday, prosecutors with the Manhattan...
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New York's top court turns down Trump's request to hear appeal of gag order
The Republican former president has repeatedly railed against the hush money case gag order, which prevents him from commenting on witnesses, jurors and others who were involved in the case.
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