Cannon Rejects Gag Order Brief From 24 GOP AGs

Law & Crime reports:

Judge Aileen Cannon apparently got tired of non-parties trying to intervene on issues in the Mar-a-Lago case, as she sent 24 Republican attorneys general and their proposed brief in support of Donald Trump packing on Monday.

The coalition of AGs said Trump’s posts amounted to “colorful rhetoric” during the presidential campaign, not true threats to law enforcement that could be subject to a “prior restraint.”

The proposed brief meant to support a filing by Trump’s defense lawyers in opposition to the gag order request claimed to represent states that “each stand to suffer the harms” which “may affect the election” and the “First Amendment rights of tens of millions of Americans.

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In a one-sentence ruling, Cannon denied Republican attorneys general the right to even submit the brief in which they seek to have Trump’s gag order lifted.

Judge Cannon swiftly tells pro-Trump attorneys general opposing Jack Smith gag order demand to take a walk https://t.co/ICLamf7rn8

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