NECN Article RatingA proposed gag order on Trump in his federal election case is putting the judge in a tricky position
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| "That could open the door for Trump's team to argue that he should be permitted to respond to public broadsides he sees on television or seek a competitive edge by denouncing a political rival for the White House." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "There is some limited precedent for restricting speech of political candidates who are criminal defendants." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "A proposed gag order aimed at reining in Donald Trump's incendiary rhetoric puts the judge overseeing his federal election interference case in a tricky position: She must balance the need to protect the integrity of the legal proceedings against the First Amendment rights of a presidential candidate to defend himself in public." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "That could open the door for Trump's team to argue that he should be permitted to respond to public broadsides he sees on television or seek a competitive edge by denouncing a political rival for the White House." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "But Barbara McQuade, a former U.S. attorney in Michigan, said she believes the judge can issue a narrow enough order that withstands legal challenges and protects both the case and Trump's abilities to campaign." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Especially in this case, where Donald Trump has made it apparent that he will say all kinds of outrageous and vitriolic things about the parties, about the judge, about witnesses unless she acts, said McQuade, a University of Michigan Law School professor." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "She has to think about the serious risk that it's not just his words that could trigger violence, but that she could play into the conspiracy theories that Trump's followers tend to believe in, and that her act of issuing a gag order might trigger a very disturbing response, said Catherine Ross said, a George Washington University law school professor." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "But among the difficult questions Chutkan must navigate is how any gag order might be enforced and how one could be fashioned that does not risk provoking Trump's base and fueling his claims of political persecution as he campaigns to retake the White House in 2024." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "The next year, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson imposed a gag order on Trump ally Roger Stone in his obstruction and witness tampering case after he posted a photo of judge with what appeared to be crosshairs of a gun." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Ford, who was ultimately acquitted, claimed the case brought under Republican President Ronald Reagan's administration was racially and politically motivated." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Ford, who was ultimately acquitted, claimed the case brought under Republican President Ronald Reagan's administration was racially and politically motivated." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The court noted that Ford would soon be up for reelection and said the gag order would unfairly prevent him from responding to attacks from his political opponents and block his constituents from hearing the views of their congressman on this issue of undoubted public importance." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "He said he was dubious that Trump's attacks, while in very poor taste, posed the kind of danger to merit a gag order." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Ending the stream of Trump's harsh language would make the case easier to manage." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Ford's gag order prohibited him from even sharing his opinion of or discussing facts of the case." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan will hear arguments Monday in Washington over whether Trump has gone too far with remarks such as calling prosecutors a team of thugs and one possible witness a gutless pig." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "A request from prosecutors for a gag order aimed at reining in Donald Trump's rhetoric is putting the judge overseeing his federal election interference case in a tricky position." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "Trump's talk may be declasse, but the First Amendment defends his right to present his distorted view of the world up to the point that he presents a true threat to people or the administration of justice." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "In one case, a federal appeals court in 1987 lifted a gag order on U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Sr., a Teessee Democrat charged in a fraud case." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "Trump's lawyers call it a desperate effort at censorship that would prevent Trump from telling his side of the story while campaigning." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Trump's lawyers call it a desperate effort at censorship that would prevent Trump from telling his side of the story while campaigning." | Negative | -46% Liberal |
| "Special counsel Jack Smith's team envisions a broader order, seeking to bar Trump from making inflammatory and intimidating comments about lawyers, witnesses and others involved in the case that accuses the former president of illegally plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Special counsel Jack Smith's team envisions a broader order, seeking to bar Trump from making inflammatory and intimidating comments about lawyers, witnesses and others involved in the case that accuses the former president of illegally plotting to overturn his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, isn't the first judge to confront the consequences of Trump's speech." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "Chutkan, who was nominated to the bench by President Barack Obama, isn't the first judge to confront the consequences of Trump's speech." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "A proposed gag order aimed at reining in Donald Trump's incendiary rhetoric puts the judge overseeing his federal election interference case in a tricky position: She must balance the need to protect the integrity of the legal proceedings against the First Amendment rights of a presidential candidate to defend himself in public." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "A gag order may also slow down the case because it's likely Trump either violates it and the judge will want to punish him or Trump will challenge the order in advance, he said." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "A gag order may also slow down the case because it's likely Trump either violates it and the judge will want to punish him or Trump will challenge the order in advance, he said." | Negative | -52% Liberal |
| "In the case of Trump's vice president, Mike Pence is also ruing against Trump for the GOP nomination." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "In the case of Trump's vice president, Mike Pence is also ruing against Trump for the GOP nomination." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "In the case of Trump's vice president, Mike Pence is also ruing against Trump for the GOP nomination." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
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Contributing sentiments towards policy:
48% : That could open the door for Trump's team to argue that he should be permitted to respond to public broadsides he sees on television or seek a competitive edge by denouncing a political rival for the White House.36% : "There is some limited precedent for restricting speech of political candidates who are criminal defendants.
24% : A proposed gag order aimed at reining in Donald Trump's incendiary rhetoric puts the judge overseeing his federal election interference case in a tricky position: She must balance the need to protect the integrity of the legal proceedings against the First Amendment rights of a presidential candidate to defend himself in public.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.