trials
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Judge in Trump’s classified files case agrees to redact witness names
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WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump granted a request by prosecutors on Tuesday aimed at protecting the identities of potential government witnesses. But U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon refused to categorically block witness statements from being disclosed, saying there was no basis for such…
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Donald Trump’s lawyers ask appeals court to lift gag order in hush money criminal case
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NEW YORK (AP) – Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York appeals court Tuesday to lift the former president’s gag order just days before the start of his hush-money criminal trial. Trump’s lawyers argue that banning Trump from making public statements about jurors, witnesses and others connected to the case is an unconstitutional prior restraint…
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Judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to delay hush-money trial until Supreme Court rules on immunity
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NEW YORK (AP) – A judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s bid to delay his April 15 hush money criminal trial until the Supreme Court rules on presidential immunity claims he raised in another of his criminal cases. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan declared the request untimely, ruling that Trump’s lawyers had “myriad opportunities” to…
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Judge expands Trump’s gag order after ex-president’s social media posts about judge’s daughter
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NEW YORK (AP) – The judge in Donald Trump’s April 15 hush-money criminal trial declared his family off-limits to the former president’s rancor on Monday, expanding a gag order days after Trump assailed his daughter and made false claims about her on social media. Manhattan Judge Juan M. Merchan amended a week-old ban on Trump…
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Judge issues gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting on witnesses, others in hush money case
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NEW YORK (AP) – A New York judge Tuesday issued a gag order barring Donald Trump from commenting publicly about witnesses, prosecutors, court staff and jurors in his upcoming hush-money criminal trial, citing the former president’s history of “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating” remarks about people involved in his legal cases. Judge Juan M. Merchan’s decision, echoing…
