Justice Arthur Engoron presides over the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump at New York State Supreme Court, in New York City, on Oct. 18, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/Pool/Getty Images)
Published November 26, 2023
The judge in the civil fraud case against former President Donald Trump has received hundreds of threatening messages, court filings show.
A new court filing shows that the office of the judge presiding over the civil fraud trial of former President Donald Trump in New York has received “hundreds of threatening, harassing, disparaging and antisemitic” threats.
The filing, registered with the New York appeals court, argues that a gag order against President Trump that was handed down weeks ago by Judge Engoron should be upheld.
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SOURCE: www.thehill.com
RELATED: Judge overseeing Trump New York Civil Fraud Trial urges appellate court to uphold gag order
Published November 26, 2023
The judge overseeing former US President Donald Trump’s New York civil fraud trial urged a state appellate court to uphold a gag order against Trump. Judge Arthur Engoron said that he has faced a “deluge” of “threatening, harassing, disparaging and antisemitic messages” since the trial began that present an ongoing threat to the safety of both him and his court staff. On November 16, the appellate court temporarily lifted the gag order while the court considers Trump’s petition to fully lift the order.
Engoron’s appellate court filing comes in response to a November 16 petition from Trump’s legal team, asking to stay Engoron’s gag order against Trump over free speech concerns. The same day, the court agreed to temporarily lift the order to consider “the constitutional and statutory rights at issue” in Trump’s petition.
Attached to Engoron’s filing was a statement from a security official with the New York court system, which said that the gag order against Trump reduced the number of threatening messages Engoron and his staff received. However, on the two occasions that Trump violated the gag order, Engoron and his staff experienced an increased number of threatening messages.
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SOURCE: www.jurist.com
RELATED:Trump fraud trial: New York AG urges reinstating gag order over comments about court clerk
A lawyer representing clerk Allison Greenfield said she receives dozens of harassing and disparaging calls and messages each day after Trump posed a picture of her.
Published November 22, 2023
Donald Trump’s complaints about a clerk in his New York civil fraud trial are “baseless” and “highly inappropriate,” so a gag order restricting his comments about court staffers should be reinstated, according to a lawyer on state Attorney General Letitia James’ staff.
Dennis Fan, the senior assistant solicitor general in James’ office, argued Wednesday in an appellate court filing that the former president’s repeated comments about the clerk were unwarranted and that Trump was unlikely to overturn the gag order.
Trump made “highly inappropriate, and personally identifying attacks against the court’s principal law clerk,” Fan said in his affidavit. “Each of these orders properly imposed exceedingly limited restraints on speech to protect the safety of the court’s staff and preserve the orderly administration of the trial.”
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SOURCE: www.USAToday.com
