ُThe New Yorker:

When Stephanie Clifford, known professionally as Stormy Daniels, walked into the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse, in downtown Manhattan, just before 2 P.M. on Monday afternoon, the photographers who had been waiting outside the building appeared to clamber on top of one another to get a good shot. “My God, they are climbing the walls,” one of the court’s security guards commented as Clifford, conservatively dressed in a pink jacket and skirt, entered with her lawyer, the shaved-headed Michael Avenatti, who was taking a break from the semi-permanent residence he’s recently taken up on CNN and MSNBC. (Later in the day, he would be back in his usual environs.)

Inside the courthouse, things were a lot quieter. Clifford took a seat on the right side of Judge Kimba Wood’s courtroom, on the twenty-first floor of the building. Most of the seats in the room were occupied by reporters. In the first row sat three lawyers from the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, which last week raided the offices, home, and hotel room of Michael Cohen, Donald Trump’s personal lawyer and longtime fixer. Behind the government lawyers sat Cohen, whose presence Judge Wood had explicitly requested, flanked by two of his attorneys, Stephen Ryan and Todd Harrison, who work for the law firm McDermott, Will & Emery. (Fashion note: Cohen had dispensed with the gaudy plaid jacket he was photographed in last week and was wearing a blue suit.) In the third row were the President’s lawyers, led by Joanna Hendon, a partner at the law firm Spears & Imes.

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