contributors, barbara mcquade and joyce vance. the last time roger stone was in court as they enforced that gag order,en the judge, judge jacks, said there isn t baseball, there s two strikes but not three.o no i am surprised she didn t impose some penalty. it is a tricky area. people have first amendment rights to speak about things of public interest and this certainly is one of them. ordinarily whenne gag orders ar imposed, the judge is able to justify it on the basis of what s called strict scrutiny, finding that there s a compelling governmental interesp in protecting a fair trial, and then narrowly tailoring that order to comply with that need. and so here i think she would have been within her rights to order even more restrictions on what he s m saying or to impose penalties for violating it, but perhapsit mindful of his first amendment rights and not wanting to give n any basis for recusin