It will directly be a routine matter for a federal courthouse — and a unprecedented one.

Former President Donald J. Trump is anticipated to seem at a federal courthouse on Tuesday afternoon in South Florida over prices associated to his dealing with of presidency paperwork after he left workplace. Federal instances are arraigned day-after-day, however this would be the first in American historical past towards a former president.

For now, a lot stays unsure about how the matter will unfold within the coming days.

One query is what federal authorities will do when Mr. Trump surrenders on Tuesday. A earlier indictment of Mr. Trump gives some clues: In April, he was arraigned in state courtroom in New York in reference to a payoff to an grownup movie star simply earlier than the 2016 election.

Often, individuals taken into custody earlier than an preliminary look could also be handcuffed, fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot. In New York, nevertheless, Mr. Trump was fingerprinted, however he was not handcuffed or photographed.

At the listening to itself, Mr. Trump, who’s used to commanding the room, each as a enterprise man and commander in chief, is not going to be in cost. He will stand quietly subsequent to his lawyer till a choose offers him permission to talk.

Typically, a defendant makes an preliminary look in courtroom however says little and doesn’t enter a plea, returning for an arraignment. But Richard Serafini, a former federal prosecutors who now works as a lawyer in Miami, stated it was attainable that Mr. Trump’s authorized workforce and prosecutors may enter a plea on Tuesday, eliminating the necessity to return till a detention listening to.

Even as Mr. Trump has stated that the listening to can be at 3 p.m., when many of the enterprise on the courtroom has concluded, Mr. Serafini stated he anticipated it to be mobbed.

“It will be an event much like New York,” he stated. “Everything will be well choreographed and happen quickly. It will be preplanned, and the U.S. Marshals will be very careful about who gets let into the courthouse.”

Another unknown is how the case’s task to Judge Aileen M. Cannon, a Trump appointee who has issued a collection of rulings unusually favorable to the previous president, will play out.

It stays unclear how Judge Cannon acquired the task. Mr. Smith may acquiesce to her overseeing the case, or he may take the extraordinary — and dangerous — step of making an attempt to problem her function.