Trump asks N.Y. judge to drop gag order after hush money conviction

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : Attorneys for Trump said before and during the trial that the gag order violated his First Amendment rights and his right to speak as a political candidate.
36% : Before last week's historic guilty verdict on 34 felony counts, Trump defied the terms of the gag order 10 times, incurring a $1,000 fine each time and prompting an explicit warning from New York Supreme Court Justice Juan Merchan that the next violation would result in incarceration.
35% : It took the jury about 11 hours over two days to find that Trump was involved in the falsification of business records to cover up claims from adult-film actress Stormy Daniels weeks before the 2016 presidential election, as other scandals had begun to plague his campaign.
33% : "Now that the trial is concluded, the concerns articulated by the government and the Court do not justify continued restrictions on the First Amendment rights of President Trump ... and the American people," the attorneys wrote.
32% : NEW YORK -- Donald Trump has asked the judge who oversaw his falsifying records case to terminate the gag order that barred the former president and presumptive Republican nominee from making comments about witnesses, jurors, prosecutors, court staff and relatives of those people throughout his six-week trial.
27% : She alleges they had a sexual encounter in 2006; Trump denies they had sex.
26% : Prosecutors argued that Trump wanted to hide the payment from the public and keep it out of campaign finance disclosures, part of a conspiracy to shut down similarly negative stories during the election.
25% : The gag order remained in effect after his conviction Thursday, and Trump has appeared to flirt with another potential violation at least once since then, publicly insulting his former lawyer Michael Cohen, who was a key witness for the prosecution.
24% : Will Trump go to jail?
24% : Trump is scheduled to be sentenced July 11.
9% : Skip to end of carouselTrump guilty verdict(Mary Altaffer/Pool/AP)Donald Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business records.

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