{"id":2283320,"date":"2024-06-25T14:27:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T18:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merchan-partially-lifts-trump-gag-order-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-06-25T14:29:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-25T18:29:07","slug":"merchan-partially-lifts-trump-gag-order-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/merchan-partially-lifts-trump-gag-order-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Merchan partially lifts Trump gag order &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Fmerchan-partially-lifts-trump-gag-order-washington-examiner%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=2283320&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>Judge Juan Merchan, presiding over\u200c Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/donald-trumps-criminal-hush-money-trial-set-for-march-25\/\" title=\"Trump's hush money trial scheduled for March 25\">hush money trial<\/a> which resulted in Trump&#8217;s conviction, has recently eased some restrictions of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-roars-back-vows-to-fight-after-judge-issues-gag-order\/\" title=\"Trump defiantly responds to judge's gag order, promises to continue fighting.\">gag\u2064 order imposed<\/a> on the former president. Initially, Trump was prohibited from discussing matters relating to witnesses, jurors, potential jurors,\u2063 the prosecution&#8217;s counsel, and their families. The amendment\u200c to the \u200dgag order now allows Trump \u200bto comment on jurors and witnesses, including Michael Cohen \u2063and Stormy \u2063Daniels. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg agreed to the modification regarding witnesses but advocated for maintaining restrictions concerning\u200d the individual prosecutors and other involved parties. This adjustment to the\u200d restrictions and\u200b the ongoing implications of the\u200c trial are\u2063 part \u200dof a developing story.  <\/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 data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_79\">\n<p>Judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3055308\/trump-legal-pundits-praise-judge-merchan-blast-cannon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Juan Merchan<\/a>, who presided over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump's\">Donald Trump\u2019s<\/a> criminal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-trials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>hush money trial<\/a> and subsequent conviction, has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harvards-chief-diversity-officer-plagiarized-work-too-complaint-claims\/\" title=\"Harvard's Chief Diversity Officer accused of plagiarism\">lifted parts<\/a> of the former president\u2019s gag order.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was previously barred from talking about witnesses, jurors and potential jurors, counsel from the prosecution, and related family members. Merchan lifted parts of the gag order Tuesday, allowing him to comment on jurors and witnesses such as Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels.<\/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>Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg did not object to lifting the gag order on witnesses, but he urged Merchan to keep the order in place against individual prosecutors and others involved.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge Juan Merchan, overseeing Donald Trump\u2019s hush money trial, eased parts of Trump&#8217;s gag order. Previously, Trump couldn&#8217;t discuss witnesses, jurors, potential jurors, prosecution lawyers, or their families. The modification occurred on Tuesday, granting Trump more freedom to speak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2910,"featured_media":2283321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/trump-close-up-1.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32656,32375,3634],"class_list":["post-2283320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-gag-order","tag-merchan","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/trump-close-up-1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2283320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2283321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2283320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2283320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2283320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}