Judge Cannon sets deadline for Trump as special counsel Jack Smith insists gag order is needed [View all]
Source: Law & Crime
Jun 3rd, 2024, 8:17 am
In a Sunday order, the judge in the Mar-a-Lago case set a mid-June deadline for former President Donald Trump to oppose the special counsel’s push for a gag order, which Jack Smith insists is necessary to protect law enforcement.
U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon ordered up a Trump team response by June 14 on the issue of Smith’s motion to modify his bond conditions.
The special counsel first raised the issue on Friday night of Memorial Day weekend, saying that Trump’s Truth Social posts claiming the DOJ authorized “deadly (lethal) force” when searching Mar-a-Lago amounted to a “dangerous campaign to smear law enforcement” and put potential federal witnesses at risk.
“Those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal law enforcement agents—falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him—and expose those agents, some of whom will be witnesses at trial, to the risk of threats, violence, and harassment,” Smith and his team said.
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Full headline: Judge Cannon sets deadline for Trump as special counsel Jack Smith insists gag order is needed to protect law enforcement, trial witnesses
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