to the courthouse. he is being closely guarded by the secret service. this is a pretty fluid situation, but here s what we know so far. former president expected to get fingerprinted once he s inside the courthouse. it remains unclear if you will have a mug shot taken. they have been going back-and-forth on that today. we do understand he will not be handcuffed. remember, i told you on tucker couple nights ago that no, the secret service would decide the tone of all of this. the tone would include whether to handcuff him which is a completely different visual for the nation to see or not. he will not be handcuffed. he will then be escorted to the 15th floor of the main courthouse where the hearing will take place. it s expected to last less than 30 minutes. video cameras have been banned from the courtroom today but there will be some still photographs taken. during the arraignment, the indictment will be unsealed, and those charges will finally be revealed, although andy mcc
everything he s doing is running contrast to what he said on the campaign trail safe indicting president trump. make it bigger than you, the viewer, the american citizen who you are running to retake the white house for. it will go a long way. emily: we know that there won t be live shots in the courtroom. there will be some photographers and drawers. this is against a new york senator who has proposed a bill that will allow, demand cameras in trials. new york is one of two states in the country that doesn t have live-action in their state cases. if this does proceed to trial, it would take months. by then this law potentially would be in place. he specifically addressed this and said it s far too important opening the doors with his first of a kind trial on the horizon. this is what the media and the american people need. already the state is trying to as much as possible create a spectacle of
don t move in the other direction, demand cameras, demand more transparency. when you look at what justice alito said, and it really echoed in a lot of ways what republicans were saying at the hearing last week that was focused on this idea of the supposed abuse of the supreme court s shadow docket, these are things that the court generally does without explanation, might not even tell you which justices voted in which way on a given case and increasingly, what s happened is a lot of these things that have been done using the shadow docket have been very significant and i think the texas abortion law is of course the most significant there. but when republicans talk about this, the pushback on this is basically that the supreme court has always had a shadow docket. there are things that it needs to do without holding full hearings, without writing lengthy opinions, and that s true, but it ignores, really, what has been a ramping up of emergency petitions, particularly from the trump