With Maine and Colorado removing former President Donald Trump from their 2024 primary ballots following court rulings from last month, Trump is reportedly concerned about the cases going before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump attorney Alina Habba shared Trump’s concern while speaking with Fox News this week, noting that the former president is worried about the justices trying to “shy away from being pro-Trump.”
“That’s a concern he’s voiced to me, he’s voiced to everybody publicly, not privately. And I can tell you that his concern is a valid one,” Habba said. “You know, Republicans are conservative. They get nervous. They, unfortunately, … sometimes shy away from being pro-Trump because they feel that even if the law is on our side, they are swayed much like the Democratic side, right? So they’re trying so hard to look neutral that sometimes, they make the wrong call.”
On Wednesday, Trump appealed Colorado’s ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, a day after he appealed Maine’s ruling to the state’s supreme court.
Both states ruled Trump ineligible based on the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause.
When it comes to how the U.S. Supreme Court could rule, Habba says she hopes the justices “really look at the law in the Constitution.”
“It’s a very clean cut,” she said. “There’s no … politics that should be involved in this. It’s just simply American, and if the justices read the law, as I do, as most Americans and attorneys do, even [Alan Dershowitz] — who’s a known liberal — it’s just a simple decision, and it should have nothing to do with if you’re Republican or Democrat.”