Former President Donald Trump won’t be able to talk about prosecutors and others involved with his Manhattan criminal case at least until his sentencing in November, as New York’s highest court declined to take up Trump’s appeal of the gag order against him on Thursday, leaving it in effect while Trump’s sentence remains pending.

The highest court in New York rejected a request by former President Donald Trump to lift the gag order imposed on him in his Manhattan hush money case. Under the gag order issued by trial Judge Juan Merchan,

Former President Donald Trump speaks alongside his attorney Todd Blanche following the day's proceedings in his trial, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Manhattan Criminal Court in New York. The New York Court of Appeals rejected Trump’s request to lift his gag order in his New York criminal case on Thursday, Sept. 12, 2024.

New York's top court on Thursday upheld a judge's gag order on Donald Trump in the case in which the former U.S. president was convicted on criminal charges stemming from hush money paid to a porn star.

After Trump was found guilty of felony charges on May 30 for falsifying New York business records, Merchan, who presided over the trial, pared down the gag order he implemented before it started —

New York’s high court tossed out former President Trump’s appeal of the gag order in his hush money criminal case Thursday. The gag order, which remains in partial effect ahead of Trump’s sentencing,