Napolitano blasted Attorney General William Barr for allowing D.C. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson to place a gag rule on Stone and hold a brief with regard to allegations that a juror and the judge herself were biased against Stone from the outset of the trial....
"She has gagged Stone," added Napolitano. "It is one thing to gag the defendant during a trial because you don't want them going out talking to the press, and it's a way to communicate with the jury. There is no jury. There is no trial. He's been convicted. He's been sentenced. The gag serves no legitimate governmental purpose, and yet, she's enforcing it on him and his lawyers. Question: Why is the Bill Barr Department of Justice not opposing this secrecy and not opposing this gag rule?"
