Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Windham, N.H., on August 8.
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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally in Windham, N.H., on August 8.
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A judge has set a hearing for Friday about the parameters of a protective order dictating how former President Donald Trump and his legal team can talk about the evidence in the Jan. 6 criminal case.
A protective order is commonplace in federal criminal cases but “nothing about this case is typical,” said Mark MacDougall, an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law in Washington, D.C.
Trump is currently under a protective order in another criminal case out of New York. Judge Juan Merchan executed a protective order in the upcoming trial against Trump stemming from hush money payments paid to Stormy Daniels, a former adult movie actress. That order covers how Trump communicates publicly about evidence ahead of the March 2024 trial.
Trump’s legal team and federal prosecutors are currently at odds over what details can be publicly disclosed in the Jan. 6 case. Trump and his attorneys have maintained possible restrictions on what the former president can say publicly is an attack on his First Amendment rights.
The protective order that the government wants the court to enter in the Jan. 6 case would essentially preclude evidence from being disclosed to anyone other than by the…