"Appellate Court Temporarily Lifts Gag Order on Trump in Election and Fraud Cases"

An appeals court in Washington has temporarily lifted the gag order imposed on former President Donald Trump in the federal case accusing him of seeking to overturn the 2020 election. The court granted a two-week pause to decide whether to enact a longer freeze and determine if the gag order was correctly imposed. The order, which has been frozen, reinstated, and frozen again, has sparked a battle between prosecutors portraying Trump as a social media abuser and Trump's lawyers arguing it infringes on his First Amendment rights. The pause opens the possibility for Trump to make threatening posts that violated the initial restrictions.