Alina Habba said she expects Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to ‘step up’ for Trump after the ‘hell’ the former president went through to ‘place’ Kavanaugh
Rep. Jamie Raskin, R-MD., lashed out at Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba for thinking like a “New York mobster” after she appeared to pressure Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to “stand up” for Trump because the former president nominated him for the job.
“This is the way that New York mobsters think about judges: ‘Yeah, we own that one. We own that one. Get in that court — that guy’s in our pocket,’” Raskin said Friday night on MSNBC’s “The Last Word.”
For "fascists and authoritarian parties and movements, the law is really not what you know — it’s who you know. It’s always better for them to know the judge than to know the law. To know the law here is to understand that Donald Trump is disqualified,” said Raskin.
He’s absolutely right. And it’s absolutely awesome to see him call her (and Trump) out like this. This is some old school shit, and I’m here for it.
You’d think they would save this mob shit for the RICO trial.
I’m sure it could be used in that case, but it still applies here as well. It’s not like you can only use evidence once, and shouldn’t be calling these things out in real time if you have a platform to.
Don’t save it, shout it from the rooftops. This shit is not okay
No, I mean Habba. Doing this mobster shit. It was a joke because RICO is often used against mobsters.
Finally. At least somebody in the government has pointed out the obvious (as expected of the Freethought Caucus co-chair). Trump is a mob boss, and the people in his orbit are his inner circle doing his dirty work.
Yeah, see Raskin was around back in the day when this mob bullshit was going on. He remembers.
This, on my mothers birthday
This Roberts court is obviously corrupt and illegitimate. Quid pro quos abound between Thomas getting bribes left and right and trumps attorney implying kavanaugh owes trump something.
No one looking at these facts objectively can come to a conclusion other than this court doesn’t care about the law and will destroy jurisprudence to meet their own corrupt goals.
We all know how the fucking Supreme Court is going to rule.
No we don’t, and for two very good reasons.
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Trump’s three Supreme Court appointments are the most disloyal from his perspective. If Trump goes full-blown dictator, he will dissolve the Supreme Court, and there’s a very real possibility he will have them executed.
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If the Supreme Court fails to uphold the Constitution on an obvious Textualist/Originalist basis, it will be seen as illegitimate and may very well be dissolved because it will have failed its ultimate responsibility.
The Justices are very much aware of these factors.
I’m hoping they’ll rule against him as well, but these reasons seem way out there.
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That’s assuming they believe he’ll go full fascist and execute them. They don’t. Even if they would believe that, ruling in his favour would prove their worth to him.
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I see no way that democrats could dissolve the SC. They probably wouldn’t even if they could.
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I guarantee Trump and company are pressuring, if not explicitly threatening, those three at a minimum right now. Too much is on the line. They do.
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If the Democrats allow the Supreme Court to stand after a second flouting following the overturning of Roe, they will be in breach of the Constitution as well.
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The Justices are some of the most cocooned people in the country, by design. I hesitate to say what they’re aware of a damn thing other than where the next ladle full of billionaire slop is about to land in their trough.
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This sounds like a good way to turn an ally against them.
Does Trump have any leverage on Kavanaugh? He played close to the line with the rules to get him appointed for life, but choosing a person likely to be ideologically symathetic is more of a mutually beneficial arrangement than a favour.
It feels like the best way to get someone who is in a secure position of power like that offside is to tell them they have to do what you say or that they owe you. Kavanaugh can just as easily say Trump is disqualified, and never be told he owes anyone again.
