Law and Order:  Every New York City police officer is in uniform and on alert for the arraignment this afternoon of former Donald Trump, an event that will last minutes and go down in history when he becomes the first former president to be criminally indicted.

  The judge decided last night that he will not allow video cameras in the court after Trump’s team argued that cameras would create a “circus-like” atmosphere, even though Trump creates a circus everywhere he goes. The road was lined with cheering and flag-waving supporters when his entourage left Mar-a-Lago yesterday.

  An indictment of 30 or more counts that would be unsealed today is expected to accuse Trump of engineering a $130,000 payoff to porn star Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet about a fling with Trump, then falsifying business records to cover up the payment. The suspense is not whether Trump will be in handcuffs, but what Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg has in that indictment that convinced him to take the risk of indicting a former president. 

  Todd Blanche, a former federal prosecutor who previously represented Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, joined the Trump defense team yesterday. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she would be in the city to support Trump.

  Trump and his followers have denounced this as a political indictment and in a sense it is. It’s about whether Trump broke the law to win the presidency so, yes, it’s political. Trump is making it political by raising money off the woe of being indicted.

  The talking heads have been jabbering since last week about whether there will be a perp walk and a mug shot released to the press. No one really knows until it happens.

The Shooting Gallery: The Virginia teacher shot by a 6-year-old student on January 6th has filed a $40 million lawsuit against the Newport News School Board , charging that school administrators were negligent in refusing to search the child after three reports that he had a gun. 

  Abigail Zwerner, 25, of York County, argues that the first grader’s behavior along with the report of a gun should have caused administrators to act. The complaint says  assistant principal Ebony Parker would not even look at Zwerner when she first described how the 6-year-old was acting that day. Even after other students told teachers the boy had a gun, Parker would not allow him to be searched. 

  Zwerner said that in the classroom the boy pulled the gun out of the front pocket of his hoodie and fired. The bullet went through Zwerner’s left hand, which she held up, and then struck her upper chest and shoulder. 

  She said in an interview that she “will never forget” the look on the child’s  face before he shot her.

The Moon and Beyond: NASA has announced the crew for its first manned space shot to orbit the moon in 50 years. The crew is three men and a woman. One of the men is a Canadian astronaut, and another is Black.

  Christina Koch would be the first woman sent beyond low earth orbit and Jeremy Hansen, the first Canadian. During the Apollo program, 24 astronauts flew to the moon, and 12 of them actually stepped on the surface, all of them white  American men. 

  The mission of this new crew is to orbit the moon in November 2024 in preparation for once again putting astronauts on the Moon’s surface in 2025. One thing they are expected to investigate is whether ice found in deep lunar craters could supply water and oxygen for future astronauts. 

  NASA administrator Bill Nelson promised, “Together, we are going — to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond.” 

NATO Plus One: Finland has been admitted to NATO, expanding the defense treaty alliance to 31 countries, and doubling the length of border Russia has with NATO.

  Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously warned that NATO expansion will not bring more stability to Europe. Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that, “We will strengthen our military capabilities in the west and northwest if NATO members deploy forces and equipment on Finnish territory.” 

  Finland’s admission to NATO comes just after Prime Minister Sanna Marin was edged out of office by .2 percent of the vote on Sunday. When she took office in 2019 at age 34, she was the youngest world leader. 

Final One: The University of Connecticut crushed the hoop dreams of San Diego State, 76-59, last night to win the school’s fifth NCAA basketball championship. UConn was up by 12 at the half and stayed in tight control throughout the game.

  San Diego State was outclassed, but this was the first time they got past the round of 16 in the tournament.

  Back in Connecticut, UConn’s campus broke into celebratory madness with students climbing lampposts then knocking them down and  using the posts as battering rams to smash through the doors of a campus building.

The Spin Rack:  More tornadoes are forecast for the battered Midwest and South. — Police say the Nashville school shooter planned her attack for months. Ballistic reports reveal that Audrey Hale fired 152 rounds inside the school building before being shot dead by the police. — Saudi Arabia and a handful of other oil-producing countries shocked the petroleum consuming world on Sunday announcing production cuts of more than a million barrels a day, starting in May. The price of a barrel jumped $5 on the news. — Roy McGrath, a former aide to ex-Maryland Republican Gov. Larry Hogan who skipped on the eve of trial for wire fraud and embezzlement, died in a confrontation with FBI agents last night. It has not been reported whether agents killed him or he died at his own hand. 

Below the Fold: Elon Musk has changed the Twitter logo from its blue bird to a Shiba Inu dog, a Japanese hunting breed, demonstrating the whimsey of the rich.

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