Judge: ACLU Can’t Argue Against Trump’s Gag Order

The Messenger reports:

The federal judge overseeing the election-subversion case against Donald Trump on Tuesday declined to allow the American Civil Liberties Union to enter a legal brief in the proceedings.

The ACLU on Oct. 25 submitted a motion seeking the court’s permission to enter an amicus brief in the case in which it argued that a partial gag order issued a week earlier by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan was “overly-broad.”

“Although courts have in rare instances exercised their discretion to permit third-party submissions in criminal cases, neither the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure nor the Local Criminal Rules contemplate the filing of amicus curiae briefs,” Chutkan wrote.

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