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.
Welcome back, Deadline: Legal Newsletter readers. It was a historic week in the first-ever criminal trial of a former U.S. president, with Donald Trump being held in criminal contempt. Judge Juan Merchan hasn’t jailed him yet over his repeated gag order violations — and prosecutors haven’t asked him to yet — but the threat of incarceration looms as we enter the third week of testimony. This second week made progress on the state’s election-interference theory.
Trump also broke new ground this week by earning the criminal contempt finding from Merchan. The judge said in a ruling Tuesday that Trump violated the gag order nine times. Merchan imposed the maximum fines available of $9,000 total and warned the defendant that jail may be next. The judge held yet another hearing over more possible violations Thursday, but prosecutors still didn’t press for jail “yet,” they said, to avoid disrupting the proceeding.
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