Judge rejects request to broadcast Trump arraignment live on television

NEW YORK – Acting New York Supreme Court Judge Juan Merchan said in his Monday night order that the media’s request to broadcast the arraignment of former President Donald Trump was understandable. However, he said that news organizations’ interests in having the broadest possible access to the proceedings must be weighed against “competing interests”. Merchan rejected the request to broadcast the arraignment live on television, but he still wrote about the historical significance of the proceeding in stark terms. Earlier, Alina Habba, who represented Trump in several civil matters, spent time with the former president in New York on Monday…