Gag Order Reveals Partisan Nature of Trial, Trump Attorneys Argue

Published on November 27, 2023

Attorneys for former President Donald Trump in a civil fraud case against him in New York State filed a 1,902 page brief on Nov. 27 arguing that a gag order issued in the case should be lifted. The lengthy document references a motion requesting a mistrial and the judge’s and state attorneys’ responses to it. “The Gag Orders shield Justice Engoron and his openly partisan clerk from the precise scrutiny essential to maintaining public confidence in the judiciary and ensuring a fair trial,” the new filing reads. “Supreme Court has ignored with impunity clear, and troubling, evidence of partisan political bias and, in so doing, undermined, perhaps irreparably, the rule of law.”...