Federal DC District Judge Tanya Chutkan, who is presiding over former President and current Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s (R) trial on “election charges,” has issued a gag order limiting what Trump is allowed to say on matters associated with that trial. Her gag order should be found, on appeal, to be strongly unconstitutional—based on Chutkan’s own characterization of her order.
His presidential candidacy does not give him carte blanche to vilify public servants who are simply doing their jobs[.]
Trump’s status as a Presidential candidate is wholly irrelevant to this. Trump’s status as an American citizen is.