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Give Choire Sicha’s newsletter about the Ghislaine Maxwell trial a look, even if you feel case fatigue. I mentioned Court Appearances last week, before the proceedings really got rolling; now I can actually recommended it, because Sicha’s doing some interesting things with the coverage, well beyond the painful litany of survivor testimony we might have anticipated. Here’s a snip from Monday’s edition, in which Sicha interviewed courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg about, among other things, subjects who sketch her:

It’s not the first time. The last time was recent — a co-defendant in the Lev Parnas trial was sketching me. What’s going on? Maybe after this pandemic, I look really interesting? But I remember, 35 years ago, Eddie Murphy sketched me on a little Post-it. He gave me the sketch. It’s somewhere in my apartment, buried. I wonder if I could find it.

Yesterday’s featured some impressions of the rest of the crew still sticking it out daily-attendance-wise, and then another interview, this one with Vicky Ward.