📺 Here's what to expect during the former president's court appearance.
◉ The historic criminal case against former President Donald Trump effectively kicks off today, when he will make his first court appearance in New York upon the unsealing of criminal charges linked to alleged hush-money payments dating back to his first presidential campaign in 2016.
◉ Semafor has a guide to the day. Trump is due in court at 2:15 p.m. There will be photos from inside the courtroom but no video. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg will hold a news conference afterward, then Trump returns to his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida for his own news conference in the evening.
◉ The only member of Maine's congressional delegation with a public event today is Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, who will be touring a federally funded project in Augusta. Her response to Trump's case has been restrained so far, though that is mostly true of the rest of Maine's delegation as well.
🏳️ An effort to force a vote on the Maine flag gets a hearing.
◉ The movement to replace Maine's current flag with the one dating back to 1901 with a simple pine tree and blue star on a beige background continues on Tuesday with a public hearing on a measure that would ask voters to approve the old flag. Watch it at 1 p.m.
◉ This measure has bipartisan support, with Sen. Eric Brakey, R-Auburn, leading it alongside Sens. Joe Baldacci, D-Bangor, and Donna Bailey, D-Saco, plus Rep. Sean Paulhus, D-Bath, who sponsored a similar 2021 bill.
◉ That 2021 bill failed in a 91-57 vote in the House two years ago. Supporters of the current flag with the state seal alongside a farmer and seaman have noted the representation of Maine's coast and interior and questioned why lawmakers should spend their time on this. Here's your soundtrack. |
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