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Judge sets hearing on gag order request in Trump DC case

A judge said Friday that she would hear arguments next month on federal prosecutors’ request for a limited gag order in the case charging former President Donald Trump with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, as reported by the Associated Press:

Judge sets hearing on gag order request in Trump DC case

Newslooks- WASHINGTON (AP)

A judge said Friday that she would hear arguments next month on federal prosecutors’ request for a limited gag order in the case charging former President Donald Trump with scheming to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.

The October 16 hearing before U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan will center on a push by special counsel Jack Smith’s team to bar Trump from making inflammatory and intimidating public statements about potential witnesses, lawyers and other people involved in the case.

FILE – This undated photo provided by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, shows U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan. Chutkan is initially assigned to the election fraud case against former President Donald Trump. Former President Donald Trump and his legal team face long odds in their bid to move his 2020 election conspiracy trial out of Washington. They argue the Republican former president can’t possibly get a fair trial in the overwhelmingly Democratic nation’s capital. (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts via AP, File)

Prosecutors have said a narrowly tailored order is necessary to preserve the integrity of the case, which is currently set for trial for March 4, 2024, in federal court in Washington.

Trump‘s lawyers earlier this week denounced the gag order request as an attempt to “unconstitutionally silence” his political speech. They called the request a “desperate attempt at censorship.”

Chutkan ruled against the Trump earlier this week when she refused a defense request to step aside from the case over comments she’d made in other sentencing hearings that the attorneys said called into question her impartiality. Chutkan said there was no reason for her to recuse.

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