Overview
- Donald Trump's lawyers argue that threats against Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron are irrelevant to the need for a gag order in the case Trump faces in Washington, D.C.
- The Department of Justice submitted a court filing arguing that a gag order against Trump must remain, pointing to documents filed as part of the $250 million civil fraud trial in New York.
- An employee at the New York State Unified Court System detailed the hundreds of threatening and harassing voicemail messages sent to Judge Arthur Engoron and his law clerk Allison Greenfield.
- Trump and his lawyers argue that any gag order against a presidential candidate is a violation of his First Amendment rights.
- The Department of Justice is trying to bolster its case for keeping a federal gag order on Trump, pointing to evidence from New York of threatening behavior directed at state judges.