The confrontational strategy adopted by the lawyer, Emil Bove, did not seem to work with David Pecker, the former publisher of The National Enquirer.

Tuesday began with a hearing on whether to hold former President Donald Trump in contempt for alleged violations of the... You can put Pecker on the stand, but you can’t take the Pecker out of Pecker.

Even lawyers familiar with sharp language from the bench were stunned by it—a calm, reasonable judge giving the lawyer for a former president of the United States a thorough tongue-lashing.