Manhattan District Attorney Requests Gag Order Update After Trump Comments

The Manhattan District Attorney’s office requested clarifications to former President Donald Trump’s gag order on March 28, a move the defendants argue in a response letter to the judge would only expand the order. “This court should make abundantly clear that the March 26 order protects family members of the court, the district attorney, and all other individuals mentioned in the order,” prosecutors argued in the March 29 letter. “Such protection is amply warranted.” A day after New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan issued a gag order prohibiting President Trump from making statements about jurors, potential jurors, witnesses, court staff, counsel, and their families “if those statements are made with the intent to materially interfere with … counsel’s or staff’s work in this criminal case, or with the knowledge that such interference is likely to result.”...