{"id":107163,"date":"2024-09-12T18:03:23","date_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/appeals-court-wont-hear-trumps-request-to-lift-limited-gag-order-in-hush-money-case\/"},"modified":"2024-09-12T18:03:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T18:03:23","slug":"appeals-court-wont-hear-trumps-request-to-lift-limited-gag-order-in-hush-money-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/appeals-court-wont-hear-trumps-request-to-lift-limited-gag-order-in-hush-money-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court won&#8217;t hear Trump&#8217;s request to lift limited gag order in hush money case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-12\/GettyImages_Trump_091224.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Hannah Beier\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(NEW YORK) &#8212; Former President Donald Trump has all but exhausted his efforts to eliminate the limited gag order in his criminal hush money case, after New York&#8217;s highest court on Thursday declined to consider his request to lift the order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Appeal dismissed without costs, by the Court sua sponte, upon the ground that no substantial constitutional question is directly involved,&#8221; New York&#8217;s Court of Appeals said in a brief order.<\/p>\n<p>The former president had been seeking the freedom to publicly criticize anyone associated with the case.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Judge Juan Merchan barred Trump from making public statements about jurors, court staff, and relatives of those involved in the case, after Trump repeatedly targeted Merchan&#8217;s daughter on social media.<\/p>\n<p>Trump was found guilty in May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records related to a hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels in order to boost his electoral prospects in the 2016 presidential election. He has said he will appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<p>Once the trial concluded, Judge Merchan relaxed the part of the gag order that prevented Trump from targeting members of the jury and witnesses in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Sentencing in the case currently scheduled for Nov. 26, after Mercand last week agreed to Trump&#8217;s request to delay sentencing until after the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Beier\/Bloomberg via Getty Images (NEW YORK) &#8212; Former President Donald Trump has all but exhausted his efforts to eliminate the limited gag order in his criminal hush money case, after New York&#8217;s highest court on Thursday declined to consider his request to lift the order. &#8220;Appeal dismissed without costs,<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/appeals-court-wont-hear-trumps-request-to-lift-limited-gag-order-in-hush-money-case\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107163"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}