Lawyers for former President Donald Trump told a judge in New York on Monday that they objected to a request by media outlets to broadcast Trump’s arraignment on Tuesday.
Trump’s lawyers said in their letter of action to New York Court Judge Juan Merchan that he was required under court rules.
“As your Honor is aware, this case presents unique security concerns (including service-related concerns) and we are submitting any video or photos of the proceedings in the cases or photos of the cases or photos of the proceedings,” they wrote only of serious concerns, “they wrote.
Among Trump’s lawyers who signed the new letter is Todd Blanche, who, CNN reported, recently joined the president’s legal team.
Meanwhile, the Manhattan District attorney’s office also responded Monday to the news outlet’s request, and said it won the ruling that will decide how to handle his courtroom.
However, the district attorney’s office wrote that it would “be a defensible exercise of the Court’s discretion to exclude or restrict videography, photography, and radio coverage of the arraignment in the interest of avoiding potential prejudice to the defendant, maintaining an orderly proceeding, assuring the safety of the participants in the proceeding, or for other reasons within the Court’s broad authority to manage and control these proceedings.”
But prosecutors also noted that there are “invisible prohibitions on cameras during an arraignment” under New York laws.
While the district attorney’s office stopped opposing the request, its attorney pointed out to Merchan that a similar tax action request for the audio-video trumpet and CFO Allen Weisselberg.
The judge responded to that 2021 request by “allowing a limited number of photos to be taken before the start of the proceedings,” prosecutors said Monday.
CNN was among the outlets that requested camera access for Tuesday’s arraignment.