What Are the Odds Trump Goes on Trial Before the Election?

Today should, by all rights, be Trial Haircut Day. This is the sacred ritual wherein prosecutors go see the barber or stylist and get tidied up, shortly before jury selection begins. There’s a delicate art to it. Ideally, you get the preparatory cut a few days before trial, just in case the barber gets a little overzealous and leaves you chopped. (It’s happened to me; it’s not great standing in front of the jury looking like Matthew Modine in Full Metal Jacket.) The trial cut typically peaks around 10 to 12 days in and steadily degrades from there. Urban legend has it that one should never get a mid-trial haircut, but that doesn’t work for a three- or four-month affair; you need to sharpen up at some point.

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