The former Islamist president, ousted in a popularly-backed coup last July, also declared to the judges during an unaired part of the hearing that he remains Egypt's legitimate leader, a state television reporter inside the courtroom said.
Here, weeks before trial, Faretta clearly and unequivocally declared to the trial judge that he wanted to represent himself and did not want counsel.
Horwitz asked the court last week to declare the judge's program discriminatory and unconstitutional, saying it "shocks the judicial conscience, abuses government power," and violates the due process and equal protection rights of inmates.
In a Utah courtroom Friday, 25 years after he was sentenced to death for killing a man during an escape attempt, he declared his preference to the judge: "I would like the firing squad, please".
At times, he has even seemed to come close to persuading the judge to declare a mistrial in the case of Mr. Stevens, an Alaska Republican who is charged with failing to list some $250,000 worth of gifts and services on his Senate disclosure forms.
Dozens of members of his office submitted affidavits to the judge declaring that they had not disclosed any protected information cited in a laundry list of news articles and broadcasts compiled by David E. Kendall, the President's private lawyer.
Defense lawyers are likely to bring copies of The Post and other newspapers to court to show that the juror's anonymity had been compromised, potentially subjecting her to undue pressure, and to ask the judge to declare a mistrial.
At a campaign rally in San Diego last week, Trump declared, "The judge, who happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great, I think that's fine.
The alternative to the judge's instruction would be for the judge to declare a mistrial, as happened recently in the federal criminal trial of former baseball player Roger Clemens.
If anything, one might say he is uninformed or misguided or even lacks the knowledge about the bases to declare that a judge has a conflict of interest.
"A tough act to follow," the judge declared.
