A judge is asked to issue a protective order after Trump posts a threat of revenge
Protective Orders from the Judiciary and Their Impact on Public Hearings and Searches for Copies of the Corrigendum
“The judge is going to have to actually be very involved in crafting the actual language of the protective order,” he said. “This will become the judge’s protective order.”
The prosecutors want the court to prevent Trump and his lawyers from sharing any government documents with anyone other than people who are on his legal team. It would place strict limits on grand jury witness testimony and materials obtained through sealed search warrants.
A person can be held in contempt of court if they violate a protective order. Rick Rossein, a professor at CUNY School of Law, says that most people will get a warning for the first offense.
There are protective and gag orders that address different concerns. Concerns about how defense may handle sensitive information shared with them as part of discovery are referred to as protective orders.
“This is not an effort to silence Trump. It’s not an attempt to prevent Trump from talking about the case. “It’s an effort to protect the use of information that’s provided in discovery.”
“It’s a case-by-case decision by the judge about whether there’s reason to fear that disseminating information could be harmful to the public, to national security, to potential witnesses,” Sklansky said.
Negotiating the protective order is important for the government before they can determine a trial date and a timeline for the defense case.
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In his third criminal case of the year, the front-runner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination pleaded not guilty on four felony charges that he attempted to overturn the results of the 2020 election. The magistrate judge has set the first hearing for Aug. 28.
Lawyers for former President Donald Trump asked a federal judge on Saturday afternoon for an extension in responding to the Justice Department’s motion for a protective order.
Federal prosecutors filed the motion on Friday night — just hours after Trump suggested on Truth Social that he would take revenge on anyone who goes after him.
The prosecutors pointed out the post on Trump’s Truth Social platform where Trump wrote, “If you go after me, I’m coming after you!”
Prosecutors said they are ready to hand over a “substantial” amount of evidence — “much of which includes sensitive and confidential information” — to Trump’s legal team.
A Trump spokesperson said in an emailed statement that the former president’s post “is the definition of political speech,” and was made in response to “dishonest special interest groups and Super PACs.”
The indictment accuses Trump of scheming with his friends to spread lies about himself as his legal challenges continued in court.
This is the third criminal case this year against the front-runner for the Republican presidential primary in four years. It’s the first case to try to hold Trump responsible for trying to stay in power during a time of crisis after his election loss.
Trump is already scheduled to stand trial in March in the New York case stemming from hush-money payments made during the 2016 campaign and in May in the federal case in Florida stemming from classified documents found at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The Justice Department on Friday asked a federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington to step in after he released a post online that appeared to promise revenge on anyone who goes after him.
