At the Department of Justice's request, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan - an Obama appointee - partially granted the department's motion to institute a gag order on Trump ahead of the 2024 election.
As The Federalist's Jordan Boyd previously reported, Smith - who indicted Trump in August over the latter's Jan. 6, 2021, statements contesting the 2020 election - filed the motion in question last month.
While it's not surprising Chutkan greenlit Smith's motion given her history of left-wing judicial activism, Monday's developments shine a light on the much bigger issue of judges deciding what political speech is permissible for candidates to use on the campaign trail.
Chutkan's order allowing Trump to criticize the DOJ while barring him from lamenting Smith and his team is a joke because Smith's investigation is a part of the Biden administration's greater attempt to throw their top political opponent in prison during the middle of an election.
While judicial activism is nothing new for leftist judges, Chutkan's order opens the floodgates for the judicial system to restrict a political candidate's constitutional right to speak freely during an election.
What's to stop Democrat attorneys general or prosecutors from filing flimsy charges against other Republican candidates who lament America's two-tiered justice system and then flocking to leftist judges to institute similar gag orders to bar such criticisms?
Chutkan's approval of Smith's disgraceful motion has put America on a very dark path in which judges can actively silence a political candidate at a moment's notice.
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