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[RTH10260]

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Alina Habba accused of 'threatening the justices of the Supreme Court' with pro-Trump plea

David McAfee
January 4, 2024 11:47PM ET

Legal experts and political onlookers alike are sounding the alarm after Trump lawyer Alina Habba appeared to lean on the Supreme Court in terms of how it will rule for her boss.

Habba, who earlier in the day made news for saying she would rather be pretty than smart, appeared on Fox News where she said she felt confident the Supreme Court would hand the former president a victory. Specifically, her reasoning was that Trump had defended certain conservative justices.

"I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court. I have faith in them," she said. "You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place. He'll step up."

The attorney then added:

"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."

Legal analyst and MSNBC host Katie Phang had this to say:

"Alina Habba saying the quid pro quo part out loud here."



https://www.rawstory.com/alina-habba-le ... eme-court/

[noblepa]

He knows its not an actual dome. As POTUS or even POTUS-elect, they would have showed him early on how it works.

Perhaps someone did, but he wouldn't have understood the explanation. All he probably heard was "dome".

[neonzx]

Maybe he watched the series "Under the Dome", and got confused with a Stephen King novel?

[Suranis]

This is what I thought about when he started talking about the dome.

Was that before or after Springfield got stuck under a dome in The Simpsons?

The concept goes back at least to 1966 with a film called "the Bubble"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bubble_(1966_film)

[Slim Cognito]

Habba, who earlier in the day made news for saying she would rather be pretty than smart,

She nailed it.

[raison de arizona]

Habba, who earlier in the day made news for saying she would rather be pretty than smart,

She nailed it.

I saw that. Her rationale was that she could fake being smart.

[Slim Cognito]

Habba, who earlier in the day made news for saying she would rather be pretty than smart,

She nailed it.

I saw that. Her rationale was that she could fake being smart.

No. No she can't.

[raison de arizona]

But for Covid, the national debt would be well on its way to being paid off. Apparently.

Trump says he was about to sell massive amounts of oil and gas to Europe and use the money to pay off the national debt but he wasn’t able to because of covid.

I'm old enough to remember when tfg decried Biden selling off some US reserves, which ultimately resulted in Biden filling back up at much lower prices.

[Resume18]

Trump says he was about to sell massive amounts of oil and gas to Europe and use the money to pay off the national debt but he wasn’t able to because of covid.

In two weeks.

[neonzx]

Sounds reasonable.

[keith]

This is what I thought about when he started talking about the dome.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(novel)

Under the Dome is a 2009 science fiction novel by American author Stephen King.

Which was 100% plagarized from the 1966 film The Bubble - a film so bad (indeed my nomination for the worst film ever made) that the owners released it a second time (maybe a third?) under another name to trick audiences into thinking it was a different film and go see it again.

ETA: ninjad by Suranis

[raison de arizona]

On immunity.

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[AndyinPA]

Yeah, like it's so horrible how many times that has happened in the past.

[Ben-Prime]

Yeah, like it's so horrible how many times that has happened in the past.

I remember that time that that Obama's Justice Department brought W up on charges and threatened him with the death penalty.

Oh, wait, no I don't.

[p0rtia]

Yeah, like it's so horrible how many times that has happened in the past.

To me the basis for this is TFG's unquestioned assumption that everybody commits crimes all the time. It crops up all the time, but his jaw-dropping statement that if POTUS could be criminally prosecuted for crimes committed in office, then all POTI would be criminally prosecuted (and therefore unable to do their jobs out of fear).

[bob]

She nailed it.

I saw that. Her rationale was that she could fake being smart.

No. No she can't.

Exhibit Eleventyhundred:

[AndyinPA]

I seem to have used this a lot today.

[Resume18]

Habba: The fact that there is so much footage of me sitting in court next to the president is so sad and such a demise of the American Justice system

What is this babble?

[Frater I*I]

Habba: The fact that there is so much footage of me sitting in court next to the president is so sad and such a demise of the American Justice system

What is this babble?

I think the official term for it is: Bullshittery....I could be wrong...

[Maybenaut]

Habba: The fact that there is so much footage of me sitting in court next to the president is so sad and such a demise of the American Justice system

What is this babble?

I agree it’s sad, but not for the same reason she thinks it’s sad.

[RTH10260]

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Missing the minor detail, that the "former presidents" would need to have actually performed an unlawful act.

[RTH10260]

Exhibit Eleventyhundred:
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1744849188884513127

Acyn @Acyn
Habba: The fact that there is so much footage of me sitting in court next to the president is so sad and such a demise of the American Justice system
11:30 PM · Jan 9, 2024

Maybe you ought to have convinced your client to follow the law in the years of his term

[RTH10260]

re John McCain, once again

[raison de arizona]

quite a list!

Abby Philip runs through a list of Trump’s various defenses

[Dr. Ken]