The former president was handed a rare win concerning his New York City civil fraud trial on Thursday.
Former President Donald Trump has been handed a rare win in his New York civil fraud trail, with an appeals court judge temporarily lifting a gag order that applied to the ex-president and his legal team.
Justice David Friedman, a Democrat who was assigned to the appellate court by Republican former New York Governor George Pataki in 1999, issued a stay of New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron’s order on Thursday. The stay will be in effect at least until a hearing set for November 27.
Engoron’s order, which was issued after the ex-president repeatedly spoke out against the court’s principal law clerk, prohibited Trump from publicly discussing communications between Engoron and his staff. A second gag order was later issued to expand the restrictions to Trump’s legal team.
Trump’s attorneys filed an emergency lawsuit with the appellate court hours before the stay, asking for the orders to be overturned.
