Stone opposes gag order

Attorneys for President Donald Trump’s longtime confidant Roger Stone urged a federal judge overseeing his criminal trial not to impose a gag order, citing his constitutional rights to free speech as a writer and political commentator, and asked to have his case reassigned to a different judge.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson last week warned she might cut off public comments by parties and attorneys in Mr. Stone’s case after he went on a weeklong media blitz following his indictment and arrest in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election.