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Appeals Judge Stays Engoron's Gag Order

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Alan Dershowitz recently remarked that of all the Get Trump cases, the prosecutions have been putting on the weakest ones first. The New York civil case under Judge Engoron is hurning out to be not just weak but farcical. A recent commenter on Xwitter posted on the judge: Dude! He looks like Mr. Burns off of the Simpsons. And he looks like he drives a van with no windows. For comparison, here's Mr Burns. Judge Engoron is simply playing into Trump's hands -- in their motion for a mistrial and appeal of the judge's gag orders against Trump himself and his attorneys, they cite in particular evidence from the the judge's comments in his high school newsletter , of all things. He's 74 years old and hasn't left high school, despite his degrees from Columbia and NYU. The Hill says of the appellate stay of his gag order: The former president’s legal team requested an interim stay of Engoron’s gag orders — and the sanctions that resulted from his violatio...