Donald Trump’s lawyer Alina Habba mentioned her hopes on Thursday that the conservative-majority Supreme Court will rule within the former president’s favor after latest choices that booted him from state GOP main ballots this yr, suggesting {that a} justice who Trump “fought for” may “step up.”
“I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them,” Habba informed Fox News’ Sean Hannity.
The remarks from Habba, who introduced up Trump’s considerations with the court docket in an interview only a day earlier than, arrive after the previous president requested SCOTUS to overturn a Colorado Supreme Court ruling that kicked him off the state’s main poll final month.
The Colorado court docket dominated that Trump was ineligible to run for the presidency once more, citing the 14th Amendment’s revolt clause over his actions that led as much as the Jan. 6, 2021 assault.
Trump, earlier this week, additionally appealed an analogous ruling from Maine’s secretary of state that eliminated the previous president from the state’s 2024 GOP main poll, as nicely.
Habba, in her interview with Hannity, pointed to her religion in Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, whom Trump nominated, whereas discussing the choices.
“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 mentioned.
“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 within the interview, Habba criticized Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows – who was focused in a swatting name at her residence final week – for not being a lawyer and mentioned she discovered “some obscure section of some statute” and utilized it to the previous president.
Quite a lot of critics on X (previously Twitter) criticized Habba together with MSNBC host Katie Phang who accused the lawyer of claiming “the quid pro quo part out loud.”
