NEW: 18 States File Brief Against Trumps DC Gag Order
A group of 18 Republican state attorneys general have filed friend-of-the-court briefs supporting former President Donald Trump’s appeal against the gag order imposed by D.C. Court of Appeals District Judge Tanya Chutkan.
The legal maneuver hearkens back to when 25 states filed amicus briefs in Texas v. Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, & Pennsylvania seeking Supreme Court intervention in the 2020 Electoral College certification.
According to The Daily Caller, 16 states joined with Iowa and West Virginia AG’s Brenna Bird and Patrick Morrisey to file the amicus brief arguing that Chutkan “overstepped” her judicial role by imposing the gag order. In the brief, they wrote,
“The district court here overstepped its role in issuing an overly broad order denying Defendant, President Donald J. Trump, from making public statements about “individuals involved in the judicial process…”
The court imposed “limited restrictions on extrajudicial statements” that hinder and inhibit the ongoing presidential campaign, particularly as applied to limiting President Trump’s ability to make statements about witnesses who are themselves part of that campaign. That overbroad Order—an order that a major United States presidential candidate mute himself on a major campaign issue—cannot survive any level of scrutiny.”
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