Noah Gray, CNN’s senior coordinating producer for special events, had grown up in the Miami area and attended Palmetto Senior High School. The remarkable effort to report on the court proceeding was only necessary because of the archaic system in which U.S. federal courts operate. The public continues to have remarkably little access to proceedings in federal courts — no matter how consequential or extraordinary the case may be. Generally speaking, federal courts refuse to budge. “I think the benefits for public access cut for both Trump and the prosecution,” Katyal told Nicolle Wallace.

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Persons: Donald Trump, Trump, Noah Gray, CNN’s, Tierney Sneed, Hannah Rabinowitz, Sneed, Rabinowitz jotted, Brad Parks, ” Gray, ” Elie Honig, Jake Tapper, ” Honig, “, Neal Katyal, Katyal, ” Katyal, Nicolle Wallace, newsrooms Organizations: CNN, Palmetto Senior High School, MSNBC, Trump Locations: Miami, Washington, D.C