B8 Politics Containment Topic #1: Fuck Fandom

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Result of the first gag order hearing the NY Criminal Trial:

The Court finds Trump has violated it nine times (of the ten instances brought to its attention for this hearing) and imposes a fine of $1000 for each violation (the statutory maximum) and orders that all the offending instances be taken down.

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1785305490370519227

In the judge's actual order stating this, when it comes to the punishment section, the judge explicitly talks about how the fine he can impose for contempt in a criminal case is bound by law to $1000 and notes that while such an amount may work in most cases, notes that that is a pretty useless fine (in terms of achieving the intended outcome - stopping the offender from continuing the behavior) when the offender is wealthy enough that the fine is basically nothing to them. And therefore he explicitly warns that jail may be necessary for continued offenses.

Order from the Court states...
However, the Judiciary Law does not vest the Court with authority to craft an appropriate punishment when a $1,000 fine will not achieve the intended purpose. While $1,000 may suffice in most instances to protect the dignity of the judicial system, to compel respect for its mandates and to punish the offender for disobeying a court order, it unfortunately will not achieve the desired result in those instances where contemnor can easily afford such a fine. In those circumstances, it would be preferable if the Court could impose a fine more commensurate with the wealth of the contemnor. In some cases that might be a $2,500 fine, in other cases it might be a fine of $150,000. Because this Court is not cloaked with such discretion, it must therefore consider whether in some instances, jail may be a necessary punishment.

THEREFORE, Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will impose an incarceratory punishment;

The instances covered by this hearing were from Trump's social media and campaign website over April 10 - April 17. I'm pretty sure the DA has since brought even more instances before the Court between then and now that I believe also have their own hearing scheduled. Presumably such instances won't trigger the "we might jail you" warning because this order only came today but IDK.
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