Posted on 08/07/2023 3:42:41 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Donald Trump's attorneys opposed special counsel Jack Smith's proposal for a protective order in the case related to the 2020 election, according to a court document filed Monday.
Trump's attorneys argued Smith's protective order, which prosecutors typically use to dictate how discovery is handled in a case, was "overbroad" and accused the Department of Justice of seeking to "restrict First Amendment rights" with it.
Protecting certain discovery "does not require a blanket gag order over all documents produced by the government," Trump's defense team wrote.
His lawyers added, "Rather, the Court can, and should, limit its protective order to genuinely sensitive materials — a less restrictive alternative that would satisfy any government interest in confidentiality while preserving the First Amendment rights of President Trump and the public."
Trump is facing four felony charges related to allegations he conspired to overturn the 2020 election. The former president pleaded not guilty to all four charges last week, and now he and Smith are stuck in a back-and-forth over provisions of the protective order, which must be settled before Trump can receive discovery in the case.
Smith's prosecutors argued in a court filing Friday night that a vague threat Trump had posted that day on his platform Truth Social — "If you go after me, I'm coming after you!" — demonstrated Trump may share information they deemed sensitive to the public.
That "could have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses or adversely affect the fair administration of justice in this case," they wrote.
Trump's attorneys also took issue with Smith's request that discovery materials be made to certain people on his defense team, such as his lawyers. Trump may, however, want to enlist "volunteer attorneys or others without paid employment arrangements to assist with the preparation of this case," his attorneys...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
What are they afraid we will see ????
Oh, OK, I guess this is a slow news day.
“I will fire the unelected bureaucrats and shadow forces who have weaponized our justice system like it has never been weaponized before, these are sick people”
[dated March 6,2023]
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/trump-speaks-at-cpac-2023-transcript
Trump needs to hire Tony Buzbee.
I do not think that the judge cares. IMHO she has an agenda.
This is all about owning the news media and what gets said as it is the court of public opinion the democrats want to control.
“the Court can, and should”
But won’t, cuz Trump.
The Big Guy’s Department of Just Us isn’t even *trying* to hide the fact that the fix is in.
An agenda? I guess you could put it that way.I think of this in terms of multi million dollar book deals. Everyone involved here has visions of getting one.
Why should they? To date no one with any authority has even tried to stop them.
We are a banana Republic
Bkmk
I thought lawyers called such a thing a “proffer.”
The elites railroading Trump plan on putting him in jail without bond for “contempt of court” or “protective order violations” so he can’t campaign.
People like us will do nothing about it but complain on social media.
That leaves the GOP nomination up for grabs between Anchor Baby Vivek, DeSantis, or Traitor Pence, any of which will get this country into the Ukraine war, which the elites salivate over.
Why don’t the elites have the Biden regime get us into the Ukraine war right now? I suspect they know most straight white males will shout, “Hell, no! We won’t go!” And the Democrats can’t make them.
But they foolishly and naively would for a “Republican.” “Woke” propaganda aside, the elites know they can’t depend on homos, trannies, gangbangers, and illegal aliens to win a war for them. Plus they’d like to get as many straight white males killed or incapacitated as possible, to further their long term demographic replacement and “great reset” goals.
You should just quit. You seem to have a lot of practice.
“Overbroad”? Just because it says “STFU, Trump. This won’t hurt...much.”?
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