Today is day 2 of Tara McGovern’s trial. There were so many people present yesterday for day 1 in support of the JoCo7 that the proceedings had to be moved to a larger courtroom.

The highest quality, most comprehensive coverage of the trial has been by Justin Comer of Rock Hard Media. That news feed can be found here.

Zachary Oren Smith of Iowa Public Radio provided superb summaries of the day’s events. That news feed can be found here.

Zachary Oren Smith’s previous coverage leading up to the trial is a fantastic resource for anyone who wants a full understanding of this situation.

Jack Moore of the Daily Iowan also wrote an excellent article summarizing the first day of the trial.

Another important resource relevant to the proceedings is this incisive interview about authoritarianism in Iowa by city councilor Laura Bergus and KRUI’s John Glab.

At the end of the first day of trial, McGovern’s defense attorney Gina Messamer moved again for the case to be dismissed based on a lack of evidence on the part of prosecution.

A motion of this nature is commonly tried by the defense but it is rarely entertained by the judge. In this case, Judge Burns made it clear that he felt that the evidence was paltry enough that the prosecution was given the evening of trial day 1 to try to come up with a more robust prosecution or else the judge will consider dropping one of more charges before the jury resumes at 9 am on day 2.

Updates will continue to be provided here on JoCo7.org but the news sources mentioned above will be faster, more detailed and frankly better written than what you will find on this page.