An appeals court reinstated a gag order on Thursday, prohibiting former President Trump and his legal team from discussing the staff of the New York judge presiding over his ongoing business fraud trial.
In a concise decision, an appeals panel rejected Trump’s appeal to lift the order, which had restricted his ability to criticize the principal law clerk.
Trump’s legal team contended in their request to remove the gag order that Judge Arthur Engoron’s enforcement of it raised concerns about his capacity to act as an “impartial finder of fact” in overseeing Trump’s case.
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