How the gag order case reflects Trump’s intense challenge to accountability It’s hard to see how the legal system escapes the fate of other institutions of accountability whose images have been tarnished after seeking to contain or expose the ex-president’s unique brand of rule breaking. Takeaways from the tense appeals court hearing over the Trump gag order in federal election subversion caseĪ judgment in Trump’s favor on the gag order – which has been temporarily frozen while the appeal is heard – would pale against his four criminal trials and his current civil fraud trial in New York.īut the issue, and Monday’s hearing, provided a preview of the extreme institutional stress, political tensions and grave constitutional questions ahead next year when the most recent president and possible GOP nominee fights for his liberty in multiple courtrooms while battling to win back the White House.
Former President Donald Trump speaks to Texas state troopers and guardsmen at the South Texas International Airport on Sunday, November 19, in Edinburg, Texas.
