Jordan Rubin is the Deadline: Legal Blog writer. He was a prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney’s Office in Manhattan and is the author of “Bizarro,' a book about the secret war on synthetic drugs. Before he joined MSNBC, he was a legal reporter for Bloomberg Law.
Judge Juan Merchan ruled that Donald Trump has violated a gag order in his criminal case yet again — for the tenth time. The judge said he's imposing the maximum $1,000 fine on the defendant but noted that such penalties aren't deterring Trump, so jail may be next for the former president and presumptive GOP nominee's next violation. Merchan previously found Trump in contempt on nine violations in an April 30 ruling.
Merchan noted in his previous ruling that the $1,000 fine per violation — the maximum fine allowed by law — was relatively low. But he warned in that ruling that jail may be next for the former president. At the May 2 hearing, the prosecution said it wasn’t seeking jail yet so as not to disrupt the proceedings. Given that the prosecution wasn't seeking jail and the violation at issue came before Merchan's jail-warning ruling on April 30, Merchan only imposed the fine this time as well.
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