Trump attorney Alina Habba said the Supreme Court will rule in former President Donald Trump’s favor in deciding whether states can keep him off the primary ballots.
“I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court,” she told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “I have faith in them. You know, people like [Supreme Court Justice Brett] 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.”
“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,” she said.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers asked the high court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling that said he violated Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, what’s known as the “insurrection clause,” for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol. The state has taken him off its Republican primary ballot.
After Maine’s secretary of state came to the same conclusion, the former president filed an appeal to the state’s Superior Court.
The Civil War-era Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says that anyone who has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution and then engaged in insurrection against the government cannot hold federal office again.
Ms. Habba criticized Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows for not being a lawyer and thinking “she can find some obscure section of some statute and apply it to a former president.”
“He has not been charged with insurrection,” she said. “He has not been prosecuted for it. He has not been found guilty of it.”
• Mallory Wilson can be reached at mwilson@washingtontimes.com.
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