Everything happening in/around the courtroom of Judge Engoron in New York City has been ridiculous in the extreme.
Even left leaning pundits and political commentators have begun to retreat from the fevered pace of the NY civil case because they can see the appeals court intervening.
Earlier today appellate judge David Friedman finally intervened in the insufferable gag order and put some common sense back into the case putting a stay on the lower court order.
NEW YORK (AP) — A gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial was temporarily lifted Thursday by an appellate judge who raised free speech concerns.
Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court issued what’s known a stay — suspending the gag order and allowing the former president to freely comment about court staff while a longer appeals process plays out.
The trial judge, Arthur Engoron, imposed the gag order on Oct. 3 after Trump made a false comment about the judge’s law clerk on social media. He later fined Trump $15,000 for violations and expanded it to his lawyers after they questioned the clerk’s prominent role in the trial.
Ruling at an emergency hearing Thursday, Friedman questioned Engoron’s authority to police Trump’s speech outside the courtroom — such as his frequent gripes about the case on social media and in comments to TV cameras in the courthouse hallway.
Friedman said that while it’s true that judges often issue gag orders, they’re mostly used in criminal cases where there’s a fear that comments about the case could influence the jury. Trump’s civil trial doesn’t have a jury.
Trump lawyer Christopher Kise said after Friedman ruled that the appellate judge “made the right decision and allowed President Trump to take full advantage of his constitutional First Amendment rights to talk about bias in his own trial, what he’s seeing and witnessing in his own trial — which, frankly, everyone needs to see.”
Another Trump attorney, Alina Habba, indicated she has no plans to advise the former president to stay quiet about the clerk. (read more)
The temporary pause in Engoron’s gag orders comes as a separate, more sweeping gag order on Trump in his criminal case in Washington, D.C. has also been lifted pending oral arguments before an appeals court scheduled for Monday.
Should probably call the gag order what it is, censorship.
Ok, so what does the clerk do? Whats the role being played?
Typically when Trump is saying something honest or important, is when he gets censored (and/or furious attacked or belittled)
They don’t actually censor anyone in this country for telling lies. One of those tricky things they do because it’s confuses people.
Why would they censor the Truth….. ok let me go distract myself with something else.:.
What does a clerk do? A judge’s clerk(s) research law and help write a judge’s opinion.
Nice.
It appears quite likely the Judge in the case is compromised in a number of areas:
-Tempermant
-Ethics
-Integrity
I wonder how the Clerk may be being used to continue or enhance the farce on display with this case. Is the role of this clerk in this particular case typical, or is the clerks behavior unorthodox in one or a number of ways?
Why might such an overhanded response, gag order/censorship, be used to quiet the defendant Trump for drawing attention to the Clerk?
This judge is a perfect example of the Psychopaths embedded in positions of authority in this country. Until people like him are exterminated there will be little improvement in the country.
Court clerk and judge: Last night on Law n Order the episode had a court clerk/stenographer typing instructions electronically to the judge (Ned Beatty) who had dementia.
The timing of the reruns do not go unnoticed, see it often.
Let’s hope it STAYS off. This is un- American to indict a president anyway and now they want to gag him. Wish he had more leader lawmakers that would defend him.
There has been one question nagging at me since the beginning of this trial. What real estate business experience does this judge (or the Ag ) have to be able to understand and rule on a real estate transaction as complicated as this one? From watching them (the judge and AG) I wouldn’t trust them to handle the transfer of title for a mobile home sale.
It’s not real estate experience, it’s corruption to the core. The entire judiciary is compromised but for a few.
“It’s not real estate experience, it’s corruption to the core. The entire judiciary is compromised but for a few.”
Some observe:
EVERYTHING is compromised now.
That’s what happens in the last stages of empire.
Here’s another corruption example: DoD identity quotas prioritized above competencies, the incompetent acting leadership of a strategic agency doesn’t even know enough to recognize competency, cronyism reigns, the resulting charade embarrasses the US, and the US military falls further behind in yet another strategic area:
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2023/11/17/pentagon-office-ai-strategy-plagued-incompetence-mismanagement/
But check out that official CDAO website spin – they sure know how to hang that window dressing.
Back to this CTH article on DOJ:
MAGA Minuteman on this reader comment thread posted*:
‘It’s almost as if they are attempting to destroy the credibility of the DOJ at any cost. Why would they do that? Do they see something on the horizon that we don’t?’
In the DoD AI effort failure comparo, we could substitute “DoD” for “DOJ” in MAGA Minuteman’s comment above.
It’s not that the apparatchiks corrupting everything see “the horizon” – they are mostly just self-interested.
The apparatchiks are just following the nudges of the veiled powers, who see “the horizon” and are nudging existing paradigms like identity politics to further degrade the US, in establishing their positions for what follows (“the horizon”).
What is on “the horizon”? Here’s one clue:
https://www.aspi.org.au/report/critical-technology-tracker
(* https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2023/11/16/new-york-appellate-judge-stops-ridiculous-new-york-gag-order-of-president-trump/comment-page-2/#comment-10360854)
This judge posting pictures of his skinny upper body on social media is like something out of a parody. And they dare call Trump narcissistic.
According to Trump’s legal team, this clerk is constantly passing notes to the judge during the trial (like a handler). She is a Democrat activist, who has made many social media posts calling for President Trump to be prosecuted and jailed, and is a confidant of Senator Chuck Schumer. Clearly not fair.
Now I remember who Engaron reminds me of…that slimy old pedophile in the Nutcracker. Can’t look at either of them.
One by one these cases are starting to fall apart. Whether through sheer incompetence by EngoMoron, or unbridled bias by Smith and Chutkin or advanced stupidity by Fani. These leftist judges are idiots and maniacs. They should have been disbarred years ago.
And none of their garbage seems to affect Trump’s popularity.
MAGA America First. Trump in ’24
You have to love the AP “reporting” on this story. President Trump lied about the lovely, hard working “clerk”. Not Trump outed the Schumer friendly, political activist Clerk.
Censorship, it is.
’bout time for some Common Sense along with the Common Law
This judge needs to be sanctioned…and if he doesn’t stop playing to the cameras…disbarred..now we know what happened to the yippies who ended up going to law school when they aged out of the counterculture
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