Former President Donald Trump is expected to appear in a Manhattan courtroom Tuesday on charges related to falsifying business records in a hush-money investigation.

Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and other Trump supporters held a rally in New York Tuesday morning, in the lead up to Trump’s arraignment. Within minutes of Greene arriving to greet protesters, she was reportedly swarmed and escorted away from the rally for her own safety.

On Monday, New York City major Eric Adams said “people like Marjorie Taylor Green, who is known to spread misinformation and hate speech...she stated she’s coming to town. While you’re in town, be on your best behavior.”

“On Tuesday morning I will be going to, believe it or not, the Courthouse. America was not supposed to be this way!” Trump wrote on Truth Social, according to CBS News.

Several media organizations, including CBS News, petitioned this week to allow video and photo coverage of Trump’s arraignment. However, New York has one of the “strictest policies in the country against cameras in the courtroom, according to The Fund for Modern Courts, a nonpartisan nonprofit,” CBS News Correspondent Caitlin Yilek writes.

Judge Juan Merchan ruled five photographers would be allowed in the courtroom before the arraignment begins to take still photos “for several minutes.” Beyond that, “no further photography will be permitted in the courtroom.”

Yilek adds that “electronic devices, including cell phones and laptops, will also not be permitted.”

Judge Merchan is allowing Cameras in the hallways of the courthouse. “Trump’s legal team wanted cameras kept out of the courtroom, saying they would ‘create a circus-like atmosphere, raise unique security concerns and are inconsistent with President Trump’s presumption of innocence,’” Yilek reports.

Trump left Florida for New York on Monday for his expected booking and arraignment on “charges stemming from hush money payments during his 2016 campaign,” The Associated Press reports.

The AP’s Terry Spencer and Will Weissert add that Trump, “already in the midst of a third presidential campaign to try and reclaim the White House he lost to President Joe Biden in 2020,” is spending the night at Trump Tower in Manhattan before turning himself in to authorities on Tuesday.

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“Trump Tower was open but authorities were planning to close nearby streets as Trump came and went, and additional security was also in the works,” Spencer and Weissert report. “They’ve taken steps to close and secure the courthouse floor where the former president is set to appear for an arraignment Tuesday afternoon.”

Spencer and Weissert write that Trump and his aides were “eagerly embracing the expected media circus, which might even involve network television helicopters tracking his progress from Mar-a-Lago to the airport for his flight to New York.”

They add, “After initially being caught off guard by news of the indictment when it broke Thursday evening, Trump and his team are focused on using what they call a weak case against Trump to his advantage.” Read more here.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.

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