This was not the first time Donald Trump's attorney, Alina Habba, clashed with Judge Lewis Kaplan. On the second day of the trial, the two also got into a confrontation over the judge's demeanor. According to Erica Orden, a Politico legal reporter present in the Manhattan courtroom, Habba requested an adjournment so Donald Trump could attend his mother-in-law's funeral, scheduled for January 18, near Mar-a-Lago. The request had previously been denied and Kaplan once again down the request, stating: "The application is denied. I will hear no further argument on it." Despite this, Habba decided to give it another go. "None. Do you understand that word? Sit down," the jurist told Trump's attorney, as Orden shared via X, formerly known as Twitter.
Habba expressed dissatisfaction with Judge Kaplan's tone, telling him: "I don't like to be spoken [to] like that ... I will not speak to you like that" (via CNBC). She then attempted to object once more, but Judge Kaplan again instructed her to take her seat.
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