Hush-money judge slaps Trump with gag order ahead of Manhattan criminal trial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : But unlike that order, this latest one from Merchan is specifically aimed at Trump, rather than all parties in the case.
42% : Prosecutors claim that Trump directed Cohen to make hush-money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.
42% : Trump claimed earlier this month that the requirement violates his Sixth Amendment right to a fair trial.
37% : "Merchan instituted the rule on March 8, after Trump had moved for a trial adjournment pending an unrelated U.S. Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.
34% : Merchan ordered Trump not to make statements about "counsel in the case other than the district attorney, members of the court's staff and the district attorney's staff, or the family members of any counsel or staff member.
33% : Trump has repeatedly used social media to attack his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen, who is expected to be a key witness for prosecutors come the April trial.
33% : Trump is no stranger to being gagged in court.
32% : Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who brought the case against Trump last year for falsifying business records related to the supposed hush-money payments, asked the court for a limited gag order last month.
32% : It was one of several scathing rulings from Merchan against Trump on Tuesday.
31% : With Tuesday's order, Trump will likely have to lay off those barrages.
26% : More recently, Trump lashed out at the judge's daughter with a series of Truth Social posts claiming that her job at a political public relations firm compromises her father's impartiality.
26% : The judge in his civil fraud trial instituted a similar order during those proceedings last year after Trump repeatedly attacked the judge's chief law clerk online and to the press.
23% : In his four-page order, New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan precluded Trump from "making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses," as well as "any prospective juror or any juror" in the criminal proceeding.
16% : It was one of several scathing orders from the judge against Trump on Tuesday.

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