U.S. District Court Judge Cannon Refuses Special Counsel’s Motion To Gag Trump In Classified Documents Case
Tuesday, May 28, 2024, 1:30 P.M. ET. By Jennifer Hodges: Englebrook Independent News,
FORT PIERCE, FL.- Today, U.S. District Court Judge Aileen M. Cannon rejected Special Counsel Jack Smith’s motion to gag Former President Trump in the classified documents case. In her ruling Judge Cannon stated, that Smith’s motion lacked basic legal requirements and professional courtesy.
In Tuesday’s order, Judge Cannon found that Smith’s prosecutors failed to properly confer with Donald Trump’s lawyers before they filed the motion in a clear violation of court rules. The judge said prosecutors did not give Trump’s legal team “sufficient time” to review the prosecution’s motion, which had been filed Friday evening on the Memorial Day holiday weekend.
Judge Cannon stated, “Because the filing of the Special Counsel’s motion did not adhere to these basic requirements, it is due to be denied without prejudice.”
On Monday, Trump’s attorneys accused the government of “unconstitutional censorship,” in their response to federal prosecutors’ request to gag Trump in his classified documents case.
Trump’s outraged legal team in a filing, asked the Florida federal judge to sanction and fine prosecutors from Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office, which requested in their filing on Friday, that the court modify Trump’s conditions of release and prohibit Trump from making future statements regarding FBI Agents who executed the search warrant at Mar-a-Lago back on August 22, 2023.
On Friday evening, May 24, 2024, Smith’s prosecutors filed a motion to U.S. District Judge Cannon, requesting that she prohibit Trump from making statements that “pose a significant, imminent, and foreseeable danger to law enforcement agents participating in the investigation and prosecution in this case.”
Trump in a campaign appeal that FBI Agents were “locked & loaded ready to take him out & put my family in danger.”
The prosecution argued that Trump’s “deceptive and inflammatory claims,” exposed federal agents to unjustified and unacceptable risks,” inviting “threats and harassment” against investigators that would “undermine the integrity of the proceedings as well as jeopardize the safety of law enforcement.”
Trump’s attorneys refuted that claim on Tuesday, that Smith’s request was “an extraordinary, unprecedented and unconstitutional censorship application” that “unjustly targets President Trump’s campaign speech while he remains the leading candidate for president in the 2024 general election.
Further Trump’s legal team requested that Judge Cannon conduct a hearing to determine Smith’s motives and purpose in filing the gag order motion on the Friday preceding the Memorial Day weekend. The timing they insisted, violated the federal court rules governing how motions are filed and was grossly unprofessional.
