New York Appeals Court Rejects Donald Trump’s Latest Effort To Sideline Judge’s Gag Order
deadline.comA New York appeals court denied Donald Trump‘s challenge of a gag order in his civil fraud case, ruling that his attorneys did not seek the proper legal remedy for overturning the ban.
Judge Arthur Engoron, who is presiding over the former president’s civil fraud case, restricted him and his attorneys from commenting on his legal staff.
That followed attacks by Trump on the judge’s law clerk. Engoron eventually fined Trump $15,000 for violating the order, and extended its reach to his attorneys.
The appeals court ruled that Trump’s request for a writ of prohibition is “not the proper vehicle for challenging the Gag Order and Contempt Orders.” “To the extent there may have been appealable issues with respect to any of the procedures the court implemented in imposing the financial sanctions, the proper method of review would be to move tovacate the Contempt Orders, and then to take an appeal from the denial of those motions,” the judicial panel wrote.
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