Sure Enough, It Got Worse

Alina Habba really shouldn’t be in a courtroom where she’s not a party to a lawsuit:

And he was cutting off the former president, sitting on the witness stand, cooperating and being a civil, decent defendant who was subpoenaed to come here and get off the campaign trail," the attorney said. "He screamed at me, 'sit down,' in a manner I've never seen, slammed on his desk." 

“And it was completely disrespectful," she continued. 

"And I said it yesterday. I'll say it again. It was unhinged." "He executed us before we walked into the courtroom," Habba agreed.  

"He granted a motion before we started the trial saying that we were liable, and he is firm on that." 

"We really are in a banana republic in there," she added. "So he already said we're guilty of fraud."

It’s called “summary judgment.”  AFAIK, it’s allowed in every state of the nation as well as federal court.

"He is now putting on a show wasting taxpayer dollars, wasting President Trump's money, frankly, because all he wants to do now is get bad evidence out and suppress anybody that's going to put in good evidence. So it's clearly political."

So she doesn’t even understand what this trial is about? Why is she being paid to be there?

Why does she even have a law license? 

The new concern is that Trump will delay the D.C. trial with multiple motions to dismiss and appeals therefrom. The worry is a claim like absolute immunity would be so novel the courts would chew on it for months. Habba is the worst of Trump’s lawyers, but the best are little better. Unless they can bring compelling arguments, the appeals court (including the Supremes) are likely to just toss him out and move on. I don’t think they really want to write Trump’s defense for him.

Not when his lawyers are this stupid.