Not much of the trial seems to get reported in the UK but this caught my eye:
E Jean Carroll’s New York defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday with the ex-president’s lawyer trying to discredit her on cross-examination with a bizarre dialectic about genitals and by intimating that she has loose morals.
“Did you ever post any tweets that could be considered sexually explicit?” Alina Habba, Trump’s lead attorney, asked. Carroll’s team objected. Presiding judge Lewis Kaplan sustained the objection.
As Habba hammered on about the sexual commentary on Carroll’s social media accounts (the former Elle columnist has written about sex and relationships for years), questioning took a turn for the absurd.
“Ms Carroll, what does this say: ‘What CAN be done about the penis? It gets large when you want it small, and stays small when you want it large,’” Habba asked, showing a 2013 tweet. “Those were your words, correct?”
“Yes,” Carroll said.
“And you posted them on a public social media account?”
“Yes.”
“And you left that on your Twitter account as we stand here today, correct?”
Carroll answered in the affirmative.
Pressed to explain the tweet, Carroll said: “It’s a philosophical question.”
“Sometimes a woman doesn’t feel like making love and the man wants to,” Carroll explained, adding that sometimes it’s the reverse.
“You discussed penises?” Habba said.
Carroll said: “Yes.”
Well, as a sex counsellor, she would, wouldn’t she but, no doubt, Habba saw the admission as a triumph for herself … 
Elsewhere, Habba has been reported as having been admonished by the judge for being ignorant of court procedure - when to stand, when to sit, how to present documents to the court, etc.
She certainly has a higher opinion of herself than others have of her:
Alina Habba has, several times, asked Judge Lewis Kaplan to pause proceedings to allow the former president to travel to Florida for the funeral on Thursday of his mother-in-law, Amalija Knavs. “Your Honour, clearly we are not going to finish this trial tomorrow. This trial will go into next week. I am asking your honour to have the kindness that my client deserves to be with his family tomorrow and not have to choose to miss the trial that he has a right to be here for.”
Judge Kaplan denied the request, noting that Mr Trump has the right either to appear in person or be represented by counsel. “And nobody is stopping him from doing either. The application is denied. I will hear no further argument on it. None. Do you understand that word? None. Please sit down."
Ms Habba responded by asking the judge not to speak to her in that way. “I don’t like to be spoken to that way. I’m not going to speak to [Ms Carroll’s lawyer] Ms Kaplan like that. I will not speak to you like that. I am asking your honour to please refrain from speaking to me in that manner.”
Judge Kaplan did not acknowledge her protest and again reiterated that her request to adjourn the case was denied and — again — told her to sit down.
