Former President Donald Trump’s legal team urged the court hearing the 2020 election case against him to reject prosecutors’ request that a gag order be imposed on him to limit what evidence he can share and talk about with the public as the case proceeds.
Special counsel Jack Smith, who was appointed by U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, brought four federal criminal conspiracy charges stemming from efforts to challenge the results of the 2020 presidential election. The case is pending in federal court in the nation’s capital.
