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Prosecutors from the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office accused Trump of violating the gag order numerous times since it went into effect.

The judge presiding over Donald Trump’s hush money case on Tuesday held the former president in criminal contempt over a series of posts on Truth Social that he said violated a gag order barring any attacks on jurors and witnesses.

Judge Juan Merchan ruled Trump in contempt for nine violations of his gag order, with a fine of $1,000 for each instance. The order prohibits the former president from "making or directing others to make public statements about known or reasonably foreseeable witnesses concerning their potential participation in the investigation or in this criminal proceeding," and "public statements about any prospective juror or any juror."

Merchan had indicated on April 23 that he was not impressed by the arguments from the defense, telling one of Trump's attorneys that he was “losing all credibility” when he suggested that Trump was exercising caution to comply with the gag order.

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[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 117 points 6 months ago (5 children)

So it's basically designed for rich people to be to ignore?

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 50 points 6 months ago

Sure is looking that way, isn't it?

[–] Telodzrum@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The judge addressed that concern specifically and said that when $1k isn't sufficient to cow a contemnor, detention should be imposed.

[–] meleecrits@lemmy.world 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is key. If he jailed him right away, his attorneys would call for a mistrial saying the judge was biased against him and they would probably succeed in getting the trial thrown out. It would still go on with another judge, but when the tactic is delay, they win.

This is the first step towards jail for contempt. There can be no doubt Trump is maliciously violating the gag order.

That said, I have little doubt some 11th hour fuckery will happen to prevent him from being jailed.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The Supreme Court will stop all of the democracy dismantling they are doing to say the do-nad can't be imprisoned.

[–] HocEnimVeni@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

It's like handicap parking spots, it's basically just a super expensive reserved parking spot that every parking lot is legally required to have.

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago

Yes.

Just like all the other laws.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Any criminal law punishable with a fine only (and bail in general) is fucked up because justice is supposed to be about applying fairness under universal laws and our means are not fairly distributed.

https://law.justia.com/codes/new-york/2022/jud/article-19/751/ has it also starting with 30 days max along with the 1k & it would be interesting to see how often those charges come with jail time.