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Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers argued Trump’s “uniquely powerful voice” is “central to the American fabric” in an over-the-top filing appealing a gag order.

Federal District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan reinstated her gag order on Trump Sunday after some legal wrangling that included a temporary stay at Trump’s request so the judge could consider whether to lift the order pending appeal.

In her blistering decision reinstating the gag order, the judge knocked down the defense’s arguments one by one, including Trump’s frequent and false claims that it infringed on his First Amendment rights.

But in a filing to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Thursday, Trump attorneys elaborated on many of the same arguments that Chutkan smacked down, and made some flowery claims about their client’s “voice”:

The district court entered a sweeping, viewpoint-based prior restraint on the core political speech of a major Presidential candidate, based solely on an unconstitutional “heckler’s veto.” The Gag Order violates the First Amendment rights of President Trump and over 100 million Americans who listen to him. President Trump’s uniquely powerful voice has been a fixture of American political discourse for eight years, and central to the American fabric for decades.

The prosecution’s claim that his core political speech suddenly poses a threat to the administration of justice is baseless. The prosecutors and potential witnesses addressed by President Trump’s...

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