Prosecutors with Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s office said Donald Trump should remain gagged while he awaits his sentencing in July, possibly placing the former president in a bind as he prepares to debate President Joe Biden in late June.

Matthew Colangelo, a prosecutor for Bragg who left a high-ranking position in the Biden Justice Department in 2022, wrote a letter to Judge Juan Merchan asking for the order restricting Trump’s speech to remain in place through a July 11 sentencing hearing and through additional post-trial motions. Trump on Tuesday asked the judge to remove the gag order just days after he was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records in New York.