Overview

• Former President Donald Trump's appeal against a gag order in his election meddling case has been denied by the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals.
• The gag order restricts Trump from making statements intended to interfere with the case.
• The Supreme Court may be petitioned to review the gag order, marking its first intervention in any of Trump's four criminal cases since his indictment.
• Trump is accused of committing four felonies, including conspiring to overturn the 2020 election results, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
• The Supreme Court is already under pressure to resolve the issue of whether Trump can be disqualified from holding public office under the 14th Amendment’s insurrection ban.