Who is E. Barrett Prettyman?

 It's 10 am and MSNBC is already wall-to-wall covering Arraignment No. 3, which is scheduled for four o'clock.  What is this, the Superbowl?  They may have delved into the name on the building while I was zoning out, so anyway...E. Barrett Prettyman (1891-1971) was a circuit judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.  Must have been good at it, too.

Glad to help.  By the way, his first name was Elijah.  I wish they had used that.  My great-grandfather was named Elijah.  He was a farmer.

What else isn't being covered today?

The German women are finished in the World Cup.  The manager, Martina Voss-Tecklenburg, says, "We need to take responsibility and it is clear that I have the greatest responsibility."  She sounds serious.

The composer Carl Davis has died at 86.  His music is linked forever with the series The World at War and Upstairs, Downstairs and films like The French Lieutenant's Woman.  Davis was born in Brooklyn but spent most of his life in the UK.

What's the price of operating a business in Florida?  We can make a shrewd guess now that the Orlando Magic have "donated" $50,000 to Ron DeSantis's hopeless presidential campaign.

Trump wants his case moved from the District of Columbia to "the politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia," where even the Democratic Senator is really a Republican.  No way a white man can get a fair trial in DC.  As for Judge Chutkan, did you know that Hunter Biden worked for Boies Schiller Flexner at the same time she (and probably another hundred lawyers) did?  For a whole year, plenty of time to plot the destruction of someone who was then a sleazy property developer and game show host!  Also, she's Black.  This can be proved.  As the Defendant blurped, "IMPOSSIBLE to get a fair trial in Washington, D.C., which is over 95% anti-Trump [Black] & for which I have called for a Federal TAKEOVER in order to bring our Capital back to Greatness."

The capital in the days of Greatness.  Is that Fred Trump, fourth from left?

Meanwhile, Trump tribute act Greg Abbott has brought back family separation at the border.  He's only taking women and children away from the men, so mothers and children can stay together.  Greg's the kinder, gentler Trump.

As Trump worked out almost at the dawn of his political career, Christian gullibility is bottomless.  Take the case of Jason Shenk, who got them to donate $33 million for Bibles to spread the word to heathen countries like China, Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia.  According to an indictment for wire fraud, money laundering and concealing a foreign bank account unsealed in the southern district of Georgia, Shenk spent the money on gold, diamonds, sports gambling and South American real estate.  Just as well, because China takes a dim view of missionaries, while Vietnam is already mostly Catholic.

If they're not in the middle of a slip-and-fall suit against Walmart that week, Trump's "legal team" may adopt an interesting theory to undermine the indictment's "knowingly" -- he was delusional.  His bad lawyers, Roodles, the Kraken lady, Lin Wood, the pillow guy -- convinced him that there was election fraud even though sixty judges had told them to go away and shut up.  Not guilty, just stupid!  That must be the "high level" chess Kari Lake says he's playing, as Jack Smith struggles to master checkers:  He's so stupid, he's a genius.  Also, First Amendment.  He never said "Hang Mike Pence," he said, "Mike Pence is too honest."  Yuge difference.  "Politically," says Axios, "the 'delusion defense' would force Republicans into the uncomfortable position of defending a candidate who can't be trusted to distinguish reality from conspiracy..."  It didn't bother them in 2016.  

The yacht known as Cujo has sunk off the French Riviera after colliding with an underwater object.  It was used by a series of rich celebrities including Dodi Fayed and Princess Diana.  Cujo was 53.