After the preliminary gag order was issued, Trump’s attorneys started complaining repeatedly about Greenfield, accusing her of “rolling her eyes and always whispering,” and claiming that her behavior of passing notes to Engoron throughout proceedings recommended she was inappropriately influencing his choices. Engoron then issued a second gag order prohibiting all attorneys engaged on the trial “from making any public statements, in or out of court docket, indicating any confidential communications, in any method, between myself and my employees.”
Friedman’s ruling got here after Trump’s attorneys on Wednesday filed a lawsuit in opposition to Engoron over the gag orders, arguing that they violate freedom of speech.
“These constitutional protections are at their peak, because the speech in query is a substantive political speech, delivered by the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, concerning partisanship and bias in a trial during which he’s topic to a whole bunch of thousands and thousands of {dollars} in sanctions and sanctions.” “Threatening to ban his lawful enterprise actions within the state,” Trump’s attorneys wrote.
A court docket spokesman declined to remark in response to an inquiry concerning the lawsuit or about Friedman’s ruling halting the gag orders.
The momentary keep on Engoron’s gag orders comes as a separate, extra sweeping order on Trump in his felony case in Washington, D.C., and has additionally been lifted pending oral arguments earlier than the appeals court docket scheduled for Monday.
