Former President Trump has once again had his motion to delay his trial denied by a New York state appeals judge. This motion was for a delay while he appeals his ridiculous gag order.
Here’s more via NBC News:
A state appeals court judge on Tuesday denied Donald Trump’s bid to halt his criminal trial while he appeals his gag order in the case, a ruling that came less than 24 hours after another judge rejected the former president’s request to delay his impending criminal trial on other grounds.
Tuesday’s ruling came roughly one hour after Trump attorney Emil Bove argued his client is entitled to a stay of the proceedings while he challenges the “unconstitutional” partial gag order Judge Juan Merchan handed down against Trump last month and expanded days later.
Bove contended the gag order — which prohibits Trump from bashing witnesses, individual prosecutors, court staff and their relatives, the judge’s relatives and jurors and potential jurors — means his client can’t comment on publicly filed motions and that it violates the former president’s Sixth and First Amendment rights.
His court filing contended the order is causing “ongoing, irreparable harm to Petitioner and the voting public.”
“He is the leading candidate in a presidential election and this record does not support the gag order,” Bove told Justice Cynthia Kern.
Trump just can’t catch a break in New York City. While we all expect this ridiculous prosecution by Alvin Bragg to go nowhere fast in the courts, it is still happening during election season and will cost Trump both time and money, both of which he could be using to campaign.