will be historic? our next guest has done just that, sketching a series of high-profile trials involving powerful men. as she describes it, defiant women. including last month s history-making criminal trial of former president donald trump. she sketched the courtroom, the judge, the lawyers, the witnesses and, most crucially, the defendant. but instead of keeping herself and her gaze out of it, as is standard in courtroom sketches, artist isabel browmen captured not just the players but the emotion of the room. in writing about what she does for new york magazine, she says my favorite image to capture is the neck of a defiant woman as she stares down a man who thinks he can destroy her. i have seen that strong neck hold up the chin of amber herd and the james doe of danny masterson. i drew the uncompromising neck of e.j. carroll and the
A courtroom sketch artist can strike a delicate balance between publishing what happens in court and protecting the proceedings from the negative consequences of photographing or video recording.
jarring a little bit to think about what he seeing right now. i m sure that anybody would. taken aback, i guess, where they found themselves there for the first time. even when this goes to trial, this is just the beginning of a process that s going to look so different, including that there could be cameras in the shorter courtrooms that would give us a completely different view of what trump looks like in that setting. coming prior to this, with only really seen him in courtroom sketches and maybe a photograph here and there, so this is a different proceeding. it is a different venue. the roles in a state setting like this are going to be dairy different for trump and, frankly, i m not sure that he s really going to like it all that much because there already seems to be much less difference giving to him in this context than federal or the new york state context. no matter how much donald trump and his supporters tried to act as if this is something
of course, the judge has to sign off on that. usually, and typically, they do. georgia believes, under their law, of course, the public has a right, and an interest, to have an inside look as to their judicial proceedings. that will, of course, be super notable, previously, we ve only got in those courtroom sketches of the former president sitting inside the courtroom, as the charges are being read to him, as he appeared in his first hearing. i will note, the arraignment that the d a fani willis had proposed to the judge for the week of september 5th, trump can appear virtually, perhaps, if they agree to that. there s nothing in georgia law that says that is not an option. currently, that s still on the table. it s not clear, because of, course the former president, all of the 18 codefendants, can file a separate motion to try and delay the start of the trial. they still haven t fully agreed to the dates that fani willis has proposed here. it s not clear when we re gonna see the former