THE DOCKET: Atlanta District Attorney Fani Willis is proposing to take Donald Trump and his 18 co-defendants to trial on March 4th, making for a crowded legal schedule for the former president next year.

  Willis’s motion said that she “proposes certain deadlines that do not conflict with these other courts’ already scheduled hearings and trial dates.” Lots of luck with that.

  Special counsel Jack Smith has asked that Trump begin trial on January 2nd on federal charges that he made a criminal attempt to overturn his election loss to Joe Biden in the 2020. 

  The second defamation lawsuit against Trump brought by former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is scheduled to go January 15^th. Trump is also scheduled to stand trial in Manhattan on March 25th in the case involving hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. His federal trial in South Florida in the classified documents case is set for May 20th.

  In the midst of all that is the political primary season, and you can be sure that Trump will claim some special privilege for being a presidential candidate.

  In the meantime, Trump supporters are showing their fervid support. The names and addresses of Atlanta grand jurors who indicted Trump have been circulating on right wing websites. And a Texas woman has been charged with threatening to kill Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who’s sitting on the election case in Washington. 

RUDY, OH RUDY: Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani got rich being an expensive lawyer and now he’s on the brink of being poor because he’s paying expensive lawyers to defend him in multiple legal cases. The Georgia election indictment is just the latest.

  The NY Times reports that Giuliani has listed his three bedroom New York apartment for $6.5 million.

  New York’s hero of the 9/11 attacks Giuliani faces nearly $90,000 in sanctions from a judge in a defamation case, a $20,000 monthly fee to a company that hosts his electronic records, $15,000 or more for a search of his records, and a $57,000 judgment against his company for unpaid phone bills.

  Giuliani can’t make money as a lawyer because his license is suspended, and he faces disbarment proceedings in DC and New York.

PARADISE LOST: The number of deaths in the Maui wildfire has reached 111 and authorities say it is still expected to keep rising.

  A FEMA spokesman said yesterday that the number of people unaccounted for is estimated to be between 1,100 and 1,300. People missing relatives have been asked to provide DNA samples in an effort to identify bodies.

SPLITTING CELLS:  Although cancers in the US occur in people 65 and older, new data indicates a trend toward cancer among younger Americans, particularly women, with gastrointestinal, endocrine, and breast cancers climbing at the fastest rates.

  A study published in JAMA Network Open revealed that while cancers among older adults have declined, cancers among people younger than 50 have increased slightly, with the biggest increases among those age 30 to 39. The study does not explain why.

THE BRACKET: Australia tied it up 1-1 before England fired in two more goals, crushing Australia before a home crowd in Sydney to reach Sunday’s final in the Women’s World Cup. The Brits will meet Spain in a match between two teams that were never expected to get this far.

  Australia will now play Sweden for third place on Saturday.

  US coach Vlatko Andonovski has resigned after a disappointing American performance in the tournament.

THE OBIT PAGE: Dorothy Casterline, who as a young researcher at Gallaudet University in the early 1960s collaborated with two professors in writing the first comprehensive dictionary of American Sign Language, died earlier this month in Irmo, South Carolina. She was 95.

  Casterline, who had lost her hearing at 13, was tapped by two professors to sort out, understand, and record the grammar of what was considered until then just a gestural form of English. What resulted in 1965 was “A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles,” which held that ASL was a language itself with its own set of rules.

THE SPIN RACK: In a case pursued by anti-abortion activists, a federal appeals court panel said it would impose restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone that would prevent the drug from being prescribed by telemedicine or dispensed through the mail. But the decision will not take effect until the Supreme Court makes the ultimate decision. — An aide to the fraudulent New York congressman George Santos who impersonated Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s former chief of staff to raise money has been charged with wire fraud and identity theft in a federal indictment. Samuel Miele is accused of “fraudulent fund-raising.” — A police raid on the local newspaper in Marion County, Kansas resulted in headlines all over the country. The county’s top prosecutor says there was not sufficient evidence to justify the raid and that all the seized materials must be returned. The question at hand was whether the Marion County Record had violated the privacy of a local restaurant owner regarding a suspended drivers’ license even though the paper never published a story about it.

BELOW THE FOLD: San Francisco is one of the experimental centers for driverless cars. The industry is betting that cars don’t need a human brain and a set of eyes. On Tuesday, a Cruise driverless car in San Francisco drove into a paving project and got stuck in wet concrete.

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