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Trump Legal Team Fights Gag Order

The Washington Examiner reported lawyers for Donald Trump will argue vigorously against special counsel Jack Smith’s request to restrict Trump’s speech about his classified documents case in Florida, likening it to a gag order. It stems from posts following the release of documents about the raid.

From the Examiner:

Smith told Cannon on May 24 that Trump “falsely” claimed federal law enforcement agents were “complicit in a plot to assassinate him” when they executed a search warrant on Mar-a-Lago in August 2022. The filing came on the same day that Trump claimed the FBI was authorized to use “DEADLY (LETHAL) FORCE” during the raid, though the FBI released a statement on May 21 clarifying that the language Trump cited was part of a “standard policy statement” included in every search warrant the agency conducts.

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, who has previously favored Trump in rulings, will consider this request next, along with other legal disputes involving Trump. These include challenges to Smith’s appointment and the federal funding of his office.

The Examiner also reported on expectations for the upcoming ruling from SCOTUS:

Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is poised to decide in the coming days whether Trump has some level of immunity from Smith’s separate case in Washington, D.C., alleging that the former president attempted to subvert the 2020 election.

If the Supreme Court remands the election subversion case back to U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan to conduct further fact-finding about which acts Trump may be immune from, [former federal prosecutor Neama] Rahmani said Trump could file another motion to dismiss the case in Florida.

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