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No cameras in the courtroom?

Sketch artist gets an early start

This could be settled by the time this posts, but….

CBS News:

Several media organizations, including CBS News, petitioned to allow video and photo coverage of Trump’s arraignment, but New York has one of the strictest policies in the country against cameras in the courtroom, according to The Fund for Modern Courts, a nonpartisan nonprofit. 

Trump’s legal team wants cameras kept out of the courtroom, saying they would “create a circus-like atmosphere,” “raise unique security concerns” and are “inconsistent with President Trump’s presumption of innocence.”

Meaning Trump thinks getting a stern talking to by a judge about watching his mouth would be a bad look. Without video or audio, he can spin what happens in court today any way he likes. It’s he-said, the fake news-said. What a shame.

“Few Americans have seen Mr. Trump shimmy his way out of a jam more often than New Yorkers,” writes the New York Times’ Mara Gay:

We’ve seen him bounce back from bankruptcy six times, and he has never been truly held to account for his long history of excluding Black people from the rental properties that helped make him rich. We’ve seen his political fortunes soar despite credible claims of sexual assault and tax fraud. We’ve watched up close his gravity-defying, horrifying metamorphosis from a tacky real estate developer and tabloid fixture into a C-list celebrity and, finally, a one-term president with authoritarian aspirations.

Trump famously called for harsh punishment for “those who break the law” in his 1969 ad condemning the wrongly convicted Central Park Five. Now the lift shoe is on the other foot. New Yorkers will believe Trump will face equal justice when they see it.

I don’t know who Jean-Michel Connard is, but this is brilliant. He’s getting a head start on today’s court sketch artists. It’s far better than watching cable news gawk at Trump motorcading from his tower to the courthouse and from there back to his plane, etc.

Maybe these sketches are why this song’s been playing in my head for hours:

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