New York's highest court on Tuesday declined to take up a challenge to the limited gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump by the judge who oversaw his criminal hush money trial. Judge Juan Merchan prohibited Trump from discussing witnesses, jurors and others associated with his criminal trial, which ended in a conviction last month. The judge himself and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg were exempt.
New York’s top court on Tuesday declined to hear Donald Trump’s gag order appeal in his hush money case, leaving the restrictions in place following his felony conviction last month. The Court of Appeals found that the order does not raise “substantial” constitutional issues that would warrant an immediate intervention.
The highest appeals court in New York declined Tuesday to hear former President Donald Trump‘s appeal to the gag order in his criminal hush money case, though the court left open the option for an appeal in the future. Trump’s lawyers have simultaneously asked presiding Judge Juan Merchan to lift the order after the conviction, arguing that the state and the court “do not justify restrictions on the First Amendment rights of President Trump” now that the trial has concluded.
