The gag order against former President Donald Trump is the “greatest attack” on the First Amendment in at least the past 50 years, Trump’s lawyer Jesse Vinal said in an interview. Breitbart News Daily.
New York County Judge Juan Marchan caused a stir when he ruled that Trump violated a gag order during his trial, was held in criminal contempt, and threatened to serve prison time. The court order warned President Trump that he would “continue his willful violation of legal orders and, if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, be subject to imprisonment.” President Trump was ordered to remove “offensive posts” from Truth Social.
Binal said this was “the greatest attack on the First Amendment” and that President Trump’s campaign website also had to remove two posts, citing other aspects of the order. is highlighted.
“Let’s talk about how unprecedented this is. There are judges out there who are donating to Biden, and they’re telling the presidential campaign what they can and can’t put on their website. So… It’s a complete disregard for the First Amendment.”
Binal said gag orders, which are advance restrictions on speech, are being abused by judges and essentially throw away the Constitution. “It’s a real thing. It’s like an injunction that tells you what you can and can’t talk about. It’s an injunction that tells you what you can and can’t talk about. “It was something that the Founders often used as their primary concern when creating Article 1,” he explained. “They were primarily concerned that government officials had issued all sorts of injunctions against speech. And that’s why the First Amendment protections against these prior restraints are so strong. .
“For example, during the Vietnam War, washington post and new york times Because they wanted to release classified information about the war while it was going on, which could and did endanger the lives of American service members, the case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the highest The court stated: It cannot be restricted, even if it could endanger the lives of service members. new york times or washington post Due to the First Amendment and previous speech controls, this confidential information cannot be made public. That’s why this principle is so important,” Binal continued. “But when Donald Trump runs for re-election, this judge completely ignores the Constitution and is willing to sacrifice civil rights for political rather than legal purposes. That’s why this is completely It is unconstitutional.”
Binal said he believes the high court “has to step in and fix this.” Because when President Trump goes out, he denounces huge hypocrisies from the left, such as the fact that Michael Cohen is a known perjurer. , or the fact that you know, there’s a lot of things that judges say they can’t tell President Trump, transferred from the Biden Justice Department to the county district attorney’s office to prosecute Donald Trump. Prosecutor,” he said.
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“Again, I think this is definitely a big first for America, because one of the big issues facing Americans right now is the weaponization of justice. What we want to do is we want to be able to decide what issues presidential candidates can talk about. …When we talk about legitimate campaign issues, we see them in the judge’s orders. ” Vinal said, explaining that judges decide what constitutes a legal campaign issue, not how the Constitution works.
“This is the greatest attack on the First Amendment, in fact, arguably in the last 50 years. The silence of the American left, once a champion of the First Amendment, is a great hypocrisy.” said Vinal.
“The mainstream media’s silence that says they rejoice when the First Amendment protects them but can’t stand it when it protects Donald Trump is simply disgusting,” he added.
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