Comment on Companies Pony Up for Inauguration

New York Times: “It’s easy to forget how long it takes to do a little in legal settings. On Monday, the morning session was dominated by maneuvering by prosecutors and the defense, even as prospective jurors waited. By lunch, they were still waiting.” “Jury selection could take days or weeks, and the trial itself may take two months.

The accounting firm that was first hired to audit Donald Trump’s social media company quit just months after it was appointed, the Financial Times reports. According to sources, WithumSmith+Brown no longer wanted to be associated with Trump and his company after several months on the job. Wall Street Journal: Trump’s Truth Social stake shrinks by $3 billion after stock tanks.

“The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Tuesday in a case that could eliminate some of the federal charges against former President Donald Trump in the case accusing him of plotting to subvert the 2020 election and could disrupt the prosecutions of hundreds of rioters involved in the Capitol attack,” the New York Times reports. “The question the justices will consider is whether a provision of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, enacted in the wake of the collapse of the energy giant Enron, covers the conduct of a former police officer, Joseph W.

“Six months into the conflict against Hamas, the Israeli public is deeply divided about how to win the war in the Gaza Strip. So, too, are the three top officials in the war cabinet meant to foster unity in that effort,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Long-simmering grudges and arguments over how best to fight Hamas have soured relations between Israel’s wartime decision makers—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the former head of the Israeli military, Benny Gantz.

A rundown of the key players in Donald Trump's hush money trial: the judge, the opposing lawyers, and the top witnesses

CNN's Kaitlan Collins speaks with New York Times reporter and CNN senior political analyst Maggie Haberman about how former President Donald Trump behaved around the prospective jurors in the hush money trial in New York.