Alina Habba Slammed by Attorney Over 'Appalling' Comments

Donald Trump's attorney has been slammed over apparent "appalling" comments when she suggested justices would "step up" to keep the former president on the ballots in Colorado and Maine. , who was nominated by Trump and took his seat in October 2018, as someone who would defeat attempts to keep the former president off the ballots due to his call to action in Washington D.C.

on January 6, 2021, when his supporters stormed the Capitol. Republican nomination frontrunner Trump was removed from the ballots in Maine and Colorado under the 14th Amendment that prohibits people "engaged in insurrection" from holding office. "I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court.

I have faith in them," Habba, said in an interview on ' , referring to an appeal by the National Republican Senatorial Committee arguing Trump should remain on the Colorado ballot. "You know, people like Kavanaugh who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place.

He'll step up," Habba said. Kavanaugh was one of three justices nominated by Trump who together shifted the Supreme Court to a right wing majority that overturned the federal right to abortion, a significant victory for pro life conservatives. The Supreme Court said on Friday , with a ruling in February .

But Habba's comments were branded "appalling" by former U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, Joyce Vance, during a Saturday interview on . "That was a really appalling statement for any lawyer to make, and particularly a lawyer involved in a contest like this," Vance said.

"All federal judges are appointed by a president from one party or another and we expect all of them to leave that political origin story at the door when they take the bench. "They decide the cases based on the law and the facts and not on the president who got them there." "So, I think that this is, in many ways, impeaning [sic] the character of some of these Supreme Court justices.

I hope that they are deeply offended by her comments. They should be," she added. "And the real problem here is that Trump and those around him continue to cast into disrepute all of our important democratic institutions. "Trump has attacked the , he's attacked his successor [President] , he's attacked members of , he's attacked the courts.

And this, the Supreme Court, where we leave our most important disputes to be decided. "To try to take down their integrity and they are already troubled, and I think we have to be frank here, has ethical issues of its own making. But this really is the last straw and it shouldn't be tolerated," Vance said.

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