Trump says he’d be willing to go to jail over gag order violations
by Brett Samuels - 05/06/24 5:07 PM ET

Former President Trump on Monday suggested he would be willing to go to jail over repeated violations of his gag order imposed by a New York judge.

“This judge has given me a gag order and said you’ll go to jail if you violate it,” Trump told reporters after court adjourned for the day in his hush money trial. “And frankly, you know what, our Constitution is much more important than jail. It’s not even close. I’ll do that sacrifice any day.”

“But what’s happening here is a disgrace, and the appellate courts ought to get involved,” Trump added.

Judge Juan Merchan on Monday found Trump violated a gag order for a 10th time and ordered him to pay $1,000 for attacking jurors in his hush money criminal trial, just days after the judge ruled on an earlier set of gag order violations.

Merchan warned Trump that future violations could be punishable by incarceration.

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https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4647233-donald-trump-jail-gag-order-new-york-trial/

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01284-1?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

by Ewen Callaway
May 1, 2024



A physician tends to a patient who is recovering from COVID-19. Credit: Remko de Waal/AFP via Getty

When Paul Zimmer-Harwood volunteered to be intentionally infected with SARS-CoV-2, he wasn’t sure what to expect. He was ready for a repeat of his first brush with COVID-19, through a naturally acquired infection that gave him influenza-like symptoms. But he hoped his immunity would help him feel well enough to use the indoor bicycle trainer that he had brought into quarantine.

It turned out that Zimmer-Harwood, a PhD student at University of Oxford, UK, had nothing to worry about. Neither he nor any of the 35 other people who participated in the ‘challenge’ trial actually got COVID-19.

The study’s results, published on 1 May in Lancet Microbe, raise questions about the usefulness of COVID-19 challenge trials for testing vaccines, drugs and other therapeutics. “If you can’t get people infected, then you can’t test those things,” says Tom Peacock, a virologist at Imperial College London.

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I wonder what will happen if it's a hung Jury?

Are there any statutory limits on how many times you can try a case with a hung juries?

If not, they'd love to try this case over and over killing all the time before the election.

On this, we agree.   

I wonder what will happen if it's a hung Jury?