Judge Already Threatening Trump's Lawyers With Contempt For Violating Court Rules

Judge Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Trump's upcoming criminal trial, has already had to threaten Trump's legal team with contempt this week after they made several filings without asking permission to do so. Merchan had handed down a ruling weeks ago letting both sides know that due to the trial starting soon, they would have to seek permission from the court before making any additional filings. Trump's lawyers ignored this, and Merchan calmly reminded them that if they can't comply, contempt charges remain an option. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what happened.

Link - https://newrepublic.com/post/180151/trump-idiot-lawyers-hush-money-case

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Donald Trump's lawyers this week decided to off Judge Juan Merchant, the judge who is overseeing Donald Trump's upcoming Hush Money trial. And they ran so afoul of the rulings and orders from Judge Merchant that he actually had to threaten them with contempt. Now I know the big media focus this week has of course been on Donald Trump getting hit with the gag order and then possibly violating the gag order by still attacking the judge's family, which technically is not a violation. If you look at the order, it doesn't include the judge, his family, or Alvin Bragg and his family. It should, but it doesn't. So Trump didn't technically violate it with that post on truth social. Nevertheless, that's not the part the media should have been focusing on because a couple weeks ago, judge Merchant, as they started to approach the trial date, said, okay, from this point forward, and this was his official order, neither side the prosecutors nor the defense can introduce a new resolution.

You can't file any new motions unless you ask for my permission first, and I grant you the permission to do that. Trump's lawyers this week apparently decided we don't have to follow the rules. We are gonna file all of these motions in an attempt to delay the case even further. And Judge Merchant got absolutely off about this, and he fired back at Trump's lawyers saying, quote, Trump either directly or through counsel, has repeatedly stated publicly that the defense goal is to delay these proceedings if possible, past the 2024 election. This court advises counsel that it expects and welcomes zealous advocacy and creative lawyering. However, the court also expects those advocates to demonstrate the proper respect and decorum that is owed to the courts and its judicial officers and to never forget that they're officers of the court. As such, counsel is expected to follow this court's orders. A court of record has power to punish for a criminal contempt.

Interesting, right? Like why do you have to throw that part in there? Donald Trump's lawyers, even though we're still weeks away from the trial, have already the jaw judge off so badly now that he's having to remind them, you keep doing this, I can hold you in contempt. And this isn't like Donald Trump's civil trial where Oh, a contempt charge means I gotta pay a few dollars here. No, this is criminal criminal's not dealing with money. The punishment in the criminal cases is gonna be, you can go spend the night in jail, we'll see you in the morning, and if it happens on a Friday, you're gonna spend the whole weekend there. We'll see you Monday, have fun and county

Lockup, and the judge is already making it known. He has the authority to do it, and he wouldn't be reminding them that he has the authority to do it if he wasn't trying to give them one warning shot. That is what this is. This is that shot across the bow to let them know he's there. I see you. I see what you're doing, and I have the power to punish

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