Trump’s lawyer asked the court to allow the ex-president to appeal its reinstatement of the orders to the Court of Appeals. A judge paused the gag orders on November 16, but they were reinstated last week.
Former US President Donald Trump is seeking permission to appeal a decision reinstating gag orders in his New York civil fraud case to the state’s highest court, a court filing showed on Monday.
Justice Arthur Engoron imposed a gag order on Trump on October 3 barring him from speaking publicly about court staff.
Engoron acted after Trump shared on social media a photo of the judge’s top law clerk posing with US Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat, and falsely called her Schumer’s girlfriend. The post left the court “inundated” with hundreds of threats made by Trump supporters, Engoron said in a court filing.
Engoron later restricted Trump’s lawyers statements about his staff in a separate order.
An appeal court judge temporarily paused the gag orders on November 16, but they were reinstated by a mid-level state appeal court last Thursday.
