Friday, as he was leaving the Manhattan courtroom, former President Donald Trump made a daring pledge. He looked at the sketches of himself in the courtroom artists’ hands and realized he needed to lose some weight.
The former president conversed briefly with a group of performers in the courtroom. The artwork they had created depicted his presence at the defense table in the $250 million civil fraud trial, which was presided over by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
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Real estate mogul Jane Rosenberg painted of him, and ABC News said that the tycoon approved, saying only the positively charged word “Nice.”
Then, at the age of 77, Trump shifted his attention to Isabelle Brourman’s incredible artwork and said, “Wow, truly astonishing.”
When he saw her work, Brourman remembered him saying, “Gotta lose some weight.”
Within days of a lower court’s decision, Trump promptly appealed the gag order to the New York Court of Appeals.
The Washington Examiner claims that since the beginning of his trial in October, Trump has not been allowed to speak in public. His social media posts about Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron and his staff led to the imposition of this restriction. It was recently discovered on the New York Appellate Division, First Judicial Department docket on Monday that Trump had filed an appeal with the state’s highest court.
“Engoron contends his principal law clerk, Allison Greenfield, has sustained harassing and antisemitic messages ever since Trump posted a picture of her with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and referred to her as his ‘girlfriend’ on Oct. 4, the second day of the civil fraud trial against the Trump Organization,” the outlet explained.
“Trump was ordered to delete the social media post and entered a gag order against him that day. Engoron has ruled Trump has violated the order twice and fined him a total of $15,000 so far, a fee Trump has already paid out,” the report continued. “The order has since been expanded to block Trump’s attorneys from commenting about his communications with the clerk, who sits next to Engoron during the trial.”
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Apart from the present charges brought against him by the federal and state governments, the former president is also facing legal challenges that aim to keep him off the ballot in multiple states in 2024.
A number of parties have filed briefs in a legal dispute challenging former President Donald Trump’s constitutional eligibility to appear on Colorado’s 2024 ballot, including over a dozen Republican-controlled state attorneys general.
This week, the Colorado Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case pertaining to former President Trump’s alleged incitement of the January 6 attack on the United States. This comes after a decision made against six voters who argued that Trump’s involvement was unfounded last month. Colorado News highlights the gravity of the situation by claiming that Trump is prohibited from entering the Capitol by a Civil War clause.
Though she acknowledged that Trump had “engaged in insurrection” under the 14th Amendment, Judge Sarah B. Wallace’s decision on November 17 made it clear that the provision does not apply to the presidency. This clause forbids people who have broken their oath to defend the Constitution from continuing to hold public office.
The matter was swiftly appealed to the highest court in the state by both parties. The plaintiffs contend that Wallace’s conclusion that the president is not a “officer of the United States” under Section 3 is nonsensical. They are supported in their claims by the nonprofit Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, DC. The legal team for Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider several case elements, such as the claim that the former president was involved in a purported uprising.
Several unaffiliated parties have made arguments in favor of or against the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in this case. Regarding Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, numerous other states have also filed similar legal challenges, and the country is anxiously awaiting the highest court’s ultimate ruling.
“The 14th Amendment entrusts Insurrection Clause questions to Congress, not state officials or state courts,” the Nov. 29 brief states. “Allowing each state and its courts to determine eligibility using malleable standards would create an unworkable patchwork of eligibility requirements for the president.”
