{"id":2211048,"date":"2024-04-01T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T02:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gag-order-expanded-to-include-judges-daughter\/"},"modified":"2024-04-01T22:21:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T02:21:27","slug":"trump-gag-order-expanded-to-include-judges-daughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-gag-order-expanded-to-include-judges-daughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Restraining order on Trump now covers judge&#8217;s daughter too"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-gag-order-expanded-to-include-judges-daughter%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2211048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump faces an expanded gag \u2063order preventing him from discussing the judge&#8217;s daughter overseeing his hush money\u2062 case in \u200cNew York. The updated order came following\u200c public attacks by Trump. The Manhattan District Attorney requested the \u2062clarification\u200c of the order, leading to the additional restriction. Trump&#8217;s provocative statements led to the\u200b judge imposing stricter consequences for further \u2062disruptive \u2064behavior.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> can no longer speak publicly about the daughter of a judge overseeing his hush money case in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>New York<\/a>, according to a newly expanded gag order.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Juan Merchan issued the revised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2945815\/trumps-new-york-gag-order-confusion-swirls-in-warring-court-filings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>gag order<\/a> on Monday night following days of Trump lobbing public attacks at Merchan\u2019s daughter Loren Merchan, who runs a Democratic marketing firm.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Merchan\u2019s order came at the request of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is leading the prosecution against Trump. Bragg had asked that Juan Merchan \u201cclarify\u201d his initial gag order, which the judge issued last week.<\/p>\n<p>The original order spurred confusion as it prohibited Trump from speaking publicly about court staff and prosecutors involved in the case, as well as their family members, but it did not expressly prohibit Trump from speaking about the judge\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n<p>When Juan Merchan issued the order, Trump tested the limits of it almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Within one day of the order\u2019s issuance, the former president posted a string of scathing statements on his social media account Truth Social blasting Loren Merchan as a \u201cRabid Trump Hater\u201d whose \u201cdream\u201d is to put Trump \u201cin jail.\u201d Trump also shared a photo of the younger Merchan featured in an article that highlighted the lucrative business her marketing firm has garnered from high-profile Democrats, including Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Vice President Kamala Harris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo clarify, the Order did not proscribe Defendant\u2019s speech as it relates to the family members of the District Attorney or this Court,\u201d Juan Merchan wrote. \u201cThe Court now amends the March 26, 2024, Order to include the family members of this Court and of the District Attorney of New York County.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The judge also added to the new order the stipulation that if Trump\u2019s conduct continued to be \u201charassing or disruptive,\u201d Trump would forfeit his right to access names of jurors in the case, a possible penalty that comes two weeks before jury selection is set to begin on April 15.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorneys had argued that the former president, who is also the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, had a First Amendment right to voice concerns about Loren Merchan, who, the attorneys noted, recently \u201cprofited from offering strategic advice\u201d to Trump\u2019s political rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Merchan alluded to Trump\u2019s references to his daughter in his new order, saying that Trump has made \u201cbaseless misrepresentations\u201d about those he has attacked. The judge suggested that Trump\u2019s argument that he has a right to post a photo of his daughter is \u201cfarcical.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe average observer, must now, after hearing Defendant\u2019s recent attacks, draw the conclusion that if they become involved in these proceedings, even tangentially, they should worry not only for themselves, <em>but for their loved ones as we<\/em>ll,\u201d Juan Merchan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The judge said that while it was imperative he balance a gag order with Trump\u2019s right to free speech, the expanded order was \u201cnarrowly tailored\u201d enough that it was constitutionally sound.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorneys indicated in a court filing on Monday, before Juan Merchan issued the new gag order, that they planned to seek permission to file a revised request for the judge to recuse himself from the hush money case \u201cbased on changed circumstances and newly discovered evidence\u201d related to Loren Merchan.<\/p>\n<p>Trump asked Juan Merchan to recuse himself from the case last year in part because of his daughter\u2019s affiliation with Democratic politicians, but the judge denied the request, saying that a judicial ethics panel found Loren Merchan presented no conflict of interest.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s attorney Todd Blanche declined to comment on Juan Merchan\u2019s\u00a0new gag order.<\/p>\n<p>Read a copy of the full order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nycourts.gov\/LegacyPDFS\/press\/PDFs\/Clarification-OrderRestrictingES.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump is now prohibited from discussing the judge&#8217;s daughter overseeing his hush money case in New York, per an extended gag order. 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