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Alina Habba’s abrasive courtroom demeanor shocked legal experts who watched her clash in real time with the federal judge overseeing E. Jean Carroll’s $10 million defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump Tuesday.

“This is called performing for the client,” said attorney Bradley Moss. “It's not helping.”

With writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation trial against former President Donald Trump now underway, U.S. District Judge Lewis F. Kaplan is taking the security of jurors seriously.

Politico legal reporter Erica Orden tweeted Tuesday that Kaplan instructed his jury that it was to be an "anonymous jury," meaning no one — other jurors, reporters, attorneys and even Kaplan — would know their names.

Donald Trump’s courtroom shenanigans have already begun to “add zeros” to the payout he’ll be ordered to pay E. Jean Carroll in her defamation lawsuit, an MSNBC legal analyst predicts.

Katie Phang had a ringside seat Tuesday in the New York City court where both the former president and Carroll, the woman Trump has been found liable of sexually abusing and defaming, appeared in the same room for the first time in years.

Longtime Donald Trump adviser Boris Epshteyn tried to speak out in the defamation trial brought by author E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday. He was denied.

Politico legal reporter Eric Orden captured the moment on social media, quoting Judge Lewis Kaplan as he asked Epshteyn, "Are you a member of the bar of this court?"

Donald Trump consolidated his grip on the Republican Party with a strong showing in Iowa, but there was a time not long ago when many could convince themselves his political career was over.

The twice-impeached former president slunk off to Florida after the startling violence on Jan. 6, 2021, was largely absent from the airwaves on Fox News and his Truth Social posts rarely penetrated into popular consciousness, but his hold on GOP voters seemed to grow as his criminal charges piled up, wrote Maggie Haberman and Matt Flegenheimer of the New York Times.

Former Trump attorney and "fixer" Michael Cohen said the withdrawal of three of Donald Trump's lawyers from his cases is a "bleak" development for the former president, Newsweek reported.

Joe Tacopina and his two partners, Chad Seigel and Matthew DeOreo, withdrew their services in Trump's New York hush money trial, as well as the appeal of the civil trial brought against Trump by writer E. Jean Carroll, who was awarded $5 million in May.

Donald Trump easily won the Iowa Republican caucus, and that could be great news for President Joe Biden.

Polling has shown that most undecided voters remain unsure if Trump would be the GOP nominee, but the former president's overwhelming win in the first primary could snap this year's race into focus as a rematch of the 2020 election — and help Biden stop his slide in approval ratings, reported The Messenger.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta on Tuesday denied Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro's request for a new trial over his contempt of Congress case.

Navarro was convicted in September of contempt when he refused to cooperate with the House Select Committee investigating the 2020 election overthrow attempt and Jan. 6 attack.

A jury last year found former President Donald Trump liable for defaming and sexually abusing journalist E. Jean Carroll.

While this is the kind of damaging verdict that most politicians would dream of using against their opponents, Trump's rivals for the Republican Party nomination have shied away from attacking him over it.

Special counsel Jack Smith will have access to Donald Trump's Twitter account, a court has ruled.

A split panel of D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals judges ruled against X's effort to appeal Smith's search warrant. X is the social media network formally known as Twitter.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected Donald Trump's claim of presidential immunity in the defamation case brought by E. Jean Carroll, court records show.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals in New York also dismissed Trump's arguments that his 2019 statements against Carroll were not defamatory, the ruling shows.

Donald Trump is apparently having a hard time in court Tuesday morning.

Jury selection began in the defamation trial against Trump by author E. Jean Carroll, but according to ABC News, the ex-president seemed agitated.

At least two prospective jurors were admitted election deniers in Donald Trump's second defamation trial brought by writer E. Jean Carroll.

During the first day of jury selection on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan quizzed the prospective jurors about personal connections to Carroll or Trump.