A major appeals court on Friday upheld most of the gag order prohibiting former President Donald Trump from making public statements about 'foreseeable witnesses' in the federal case that accuses him of conspiring to defraud the U.S. in seeking to overturn the 2020 election results.
'We do not allow such an order lightly. Mr. Trump is a former president and current candidate for the presidency, and there is a strong public interest in what he has to say. But Mr. Trump is also an indicted criminal defendant, and he must stand trial in a courtroom under the same procedures that govern all other criminal defendants. That is what the rule of law means,' the panel of Obama appointees Patricia Millett and Cornelia Pillard and Biden-nominated Brad Garcia said in the order.
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