“No court in American history has imposed a gag order on a criminal defendant who is actively campaigning for public office – let alone the leading candidate for President of the United States. That centuries-long practice was broken on October 17, 2023, when the district court entered its Opinion and Order, A1 (the ‘Gag Order’), muzzling President Trump’s core political speech during an historic Presidential campaign. Given the Gag Order’s extraordinary nature, one would expect an extraordinary justification for it. Yet none exists. President Trump has made months of public statements about this case, but the Department of Justice (‘the prosecution’) submitted no evidence of any actual or imminent threat to the administration of justice.”

“Instead, when asked about the supposed threat to the case, the prosecution admitted, ‘of course this prejudice is speculative.’ Based this speculation, the district court entered a sweeping, viewpoint-based prior restraint on the core political speech of a major Presidential candidate, based solely on an unconstitutional ‘heckler’s veto.’ The Gag Order violates the First Amendment rights of President Trump and over 100 million Americans who listen to him,” write disgraced former President Trump’s lawyers in their “emergency” appeal to the DC Circuit to lift the gag order.

Love the violating “the First Amendment rights of” the “over 100 million Americans who listen to him,” part, which neatly puts that “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you. I’m just standing in the way” line of Nazi bullshit neatly fit into what’s supposed to be a federal appeal.