Alina Habba appears on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show on Jan. 4, 2024 (Fox News/screengrab)
Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba caused an uproar with her appearance Thursday on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show in which she seemingly suggested that Justice Brett Kavanaugh owes it to the former president who appointed him to the Supreme Court to “step up” and overturn Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to boot Trump from the ballot under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment.
Habba, appearing in the capacity of Trump’s “legal spokeswoman,” was asked for her take on how the U.S. Supreme Court might rule on an issue that’s been litigated in states across the country as the quadruply indicted former president pursues reelection.
“I think it’ll clarify a lot of confusion among the states amongst these rogue people, like the woman we see in Maine who’s not even a lawyer, who thinks she can find some obscure section of some statute and apply it to a former president,” Habba began. “He has not been charged with insurrection, he has not been prosecuted for it, he has not been found guilty of it.”
Moments later, the attorney made remarks that were immediately interpreted as Trump’s lawyer calling in a favor for standing by Kavanaugh during his SCOTUS confirmation hearings after four separate sexual misconduct allegations, two of which were later revealed to be false.
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
— Acyn (@Acyn) January 5, 2024
“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, those people will step up,” Habba said, before appearing to catch herself. “Not because they are pro-Trump, but because they are pro-law, because they are pro-fairness, and the law on this is very clear.”
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The remarks raised obvious questions: If the law is so clear, why mention what Trump did for Kavanaugh and “those people” the former presdient also fought to get on SCOTUS (i.e., Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch)?
In a clip posted on the Fox News site just one day earlier, Habba asserted it was inappropriate of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, to suggest the Supreme Court is merely a “MAGA-ized” tool at Trump’s disposal.
“It’s the narrative that they love to do to scare you, right. To make you think that the Constitution actually isn’t correct on this one, that it’s just in fact that we have a Supreme Court that is ‘MAGA-ized,”” Habba said. “I’ve never heard them use a phrase that is all positive — Make America Great Again — it’s not ‘destroy America,’ it’s not ‘corrupt our children, open our borders,’ it’s ‘Make America Great Again.’ And they use it to scare these incredibly radical left people and to make them believe that the Supreme Court, the highest court in this country, would be as radical and ridiculous as some of the corrupt Soros-backed GAs and DAs that I’ve seen in court against Donald Trump.”
“It’s a tactic, it’s a typical left-wing tactic, we’ve seen it time and time again. I’m looking forward to seeing what their decision is. They are going to have to make tough decisions, obviously, but to me the law is very clear,” she added.
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