Are gag orders constitutional? SCOTUS says it depends [Video]

Court-imposed gag orders put limits on speech, so how are they legal under the First Amendment? We VERIFY what the Supreme Court has said on the issue.

Former President Trump has been fined $9,000 by a judge and declared to be in contempt of court in the New York criminal trial where he’s accused of covering up hush money payments to a porn star.

The judge said Trump violated an order not to attack witnesses and other key participants in the trial when he repeatedly posted about them on Truth Social.

Such court-imposed orders are often called gag orders, and since they restrict what a person is allowed to say publicly, VERIFY reader Richard wondered how they can be legal given the First Amendment’s free speech protections.