Trump Lawyer Slammed For Saying The Quiet Part ‘Out Loud’ On Supreme Court Hopes – HuffPost
Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, discussed her hopes on Thursday that the conservative-majority U.S. Supreme Court will rule in the former president’s favor after recent decisions that booted him from state GOP primary ballots this year, suggesting that a justice whom Trump “fought for” might “step up.”
“I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them,” Habba told Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
The remarks from Habba, who brought up Trump’s concerns with the court in an interview just a day before, arrive after the former president asked SCOTUS to overturn a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that kicked him off the state’s primary ballot last month.
The Colorado court ruled that Trump was ineligible to run for the presidency again, citing the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause over his actions that led up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
Earlier this week, Trump also appealed a similar ruling from Maine’s secretary of state that removed him from the state’s 2024 GOP primary ballot.
Habba, in her interview with Hannity, pointed to her faith in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whom Trump nominated, while discussing the decisions.
“You know people like Kavanaugh ― who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place ― he’ll step up,” she said. “Those people will step up. Not because they’re pro-Trump but because they’re pro-law. Because they’re pro-fairness, and the law on this is very clear.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Habba criticized Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows, targeted in a swatting call at her home last week, for not being a lawyer and said she found “some obscure section of some statute” and applied it to the former president.
Habba: I think it should be a slam dunk in the supreme court. I have faith in them. You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place. He’ll step up. pic.twitter.com/gQo1h55t6N
A number of critics on X (formerly Twitter) criticized Habba, including MSNBC host Katie Phang, who accused the attorney of saying “the quid pro quo part out loud.”
Alina Habba saying the quid pro quo part out loud here ⤵️ https://t.co/957fZxO6jh
Repeating from today’s Countdown podcast:
Trump’s surrogates are quietly THREATENING THE JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT@AlinaHabba did this Wednesday as well https://t.co/MPbh2R1i2m
Translation: “Trump believes Kavanaugh owes him.” https://t.co/SerK7ciy07
This is so stupid AND inappopriate on so many different levels, where does one begin? https://t.co/BN53ZUluiZ
Imagine for a second if a lawyer for Clinton, Obama or Biden said this. It’d be a massive scandal at Fox. https://t.co/EleVRLbmjT
I’m sure Justice Kavanaugh will appreciate this https://t.co/AzHhziGn8m
I mean, we know that’s what they’re counting on but a better lawyer wouldn’t say it out loud. Though maybe this is part of the Trump pattern of “so unacquainted with basic norms of decency or ethics that they don’t even clock that this sounds bad to normal people.” https://t.co/fnvLkVwdnX
Yeah that’s not a signal or anything. https://t.co/n7MSXnnD4u
That’s not how this works https://t.co/EleVRLbmjT
Stand back and standby. https://t.co/XMEmpGjnrk
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