A federal judge on Tuesday found Roger Stone violated a gag order she previously imposed in his case and blocked him from using certain social media platforms ahead of his trial in November.
An irate Judge Amy Berman Jackson did not revoke his bail but instead ordered Stone to not make posts “in any way or on any subject” on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Federal prosecutors filed a motion last month alleging that Stone had violated the gag order, which blocked him from publicly discussing his case, through several Instagram posts. The posts made reference to public court filings in Stone’s case, and the longtime Republican operative had tagged several media outlets in the images.
On Tuesday, Jackson painstakingly walked Stone’s attorney, Bruce Rogow, through several Instagram posts made by Stone in recent weeks, asking the lawyer why each was not a violation of her gag order.
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Jackson said in her ruling that she did not want to start contempt proceedings for Stone, despite believing that he had violated the order several times, adding that she thought it would lead to even more media attention on the case.
The claim that Stone was seeking to become the story and trying to draw more attention to himself over the court filings was at the center of Jackson’s blistering statement issuing the order against Stone.
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#BREAKING: Judge blocks Roger Stone from using social media after ruling he broke gag order https://t.co/6FH6SnKVDD pic.twitter.com/h5w4qZtUMO
— The Hill (@thehill) July 16, 2019
Why just those three? Why not just ban him from all of them? How about spending some time in jail before his trial where he can monitored? I am so sick and tired of people with money who don’t have to live by the same rules as the rest of us do.
Here's the Judge Jackson order just posted to the docket on Roger Stone's social media ban. And a link to my @politico story from yesterday here too: https://t.co/3gAYoL2UnD pic.twitter.com/gfdTjVSFUW
— Darren Samuelsohn (@dsamuelsohn) July 17, 2019
Thank you for posting this. It seems he can’t talk about it anywhere or anyplace nor get someone else to do it for him. I like this much better!
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