Justice Engoron ordered Trump’s lawyers to knock it off already, but the melee continued today with Kise insisting that he had a First Amendment right to address the issue in open court and an obligation to do so to preserve it for appeal. Kise, the former solicitor general of Florida who argued multiple cases before the US Supreme Court, affected to be shocked and chagrined that the parties were not able to see the communications between the judge and his clerk. He complained that the courtroom cameras he been moved as part of a plot to make it harder to see their written notes. And he threatened to move for a mistrial based on an article in Breitbart which alleges that the clerk exceeded campaign contribution limits on court staff. The article is sourced to a serial litigant from Wisconsin who has registered a website in the clerk’s name as a place to host the bar complaint he filed against her.
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