Trump lawyer and spokeswoman Alina Habba defended remarks she made about Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh after saying she believes he and other justices on the court will “step up” and rule that state efforts to reject the former president from the 2024 ballot will be overturned.
In an interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Habba singled out Kavanaugh as one of the nine justices who should rule in favor of former President Trump in a potential decision on overturning the Colorado Supreme Court’s December ruling that barred him from running for office in the state.
Trump filed an appeal with the nation’s highest court in response to the historic ruling that said his actions in and around the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. The section states that anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” after taking an oath of office to support the Constitution is ineligible to run for office again.
SCOTUS, which has a conservative majority and three judges nominated by Trump to the bench—Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Neil Gorsuch—is expected to hear the case and decide whether the Colorado decision should be upheld or overturned. Since that decision, Maine’s secretary of state also unilaterally removed Trump from that state’s ballot, with no due process given to the former president or consideration of voters in her state who support him.
In her interview with Hannity, Habba stated that Kavanaugh should rule in favor of Trump in the Colorado decision because the former president “went through hell” to get the judge appointed.
“It should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them. People like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place, he’ll step up,” Habba 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.”
A number of liberals ripped Habba over her remark, claiming she was attempting to pressure Kavanaugh into ruling in favor of her boss because Trump stuck by him throughout his chaotic confirmation.
“As I have stated multiple times, the Constitution and law speak for itself and I believe every justice will decide on this clear-cut issue fairly,” Habba told Newsweek.
“Left-wing media’s attempt to intimidate judges who have been put through rigorous vetting due to who they were appointed by is ridiculous, and that is exactly why I addressed it. This is about the constitution and due process, nothing else.”
WATCH:
I see everyone conveniently leaving off the last part of Alina Habba’s statement about Justice Kavanaugh: “NOT because they’re Pro-Trump but because they ARE Pro-Law, because they ARE Pro-Fairness” – @AlinaHabba
— Alec Lace (@AlecLace) January 5, 2024
