Michael Popok: 'Donald Trump Lawyer STEPS INTO IT with Federal Judge WHO DESPISES HER'

Source:Meidas Touch- left to right (in case this isn't obvious enough) U.S. Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan & Trump University graduate Alina Habba. Well, she acts like she went to Trump U.

"Alina Habba is on the verge of having the federal judge in the E Jean Carroll case against Trump refer her for disciplinary action for admitting that she is accusing the judge of misconduct without a shred of evidence. Michael Popok of Legal AF breaks down why Habba—like a long line of Trump attorneys— has likely crossed the line and put her bar license in jeopardy by basing her ethical attacks on the judge on an unsubstantiated tabloid article." 

From the Meidas Touch

"Trump has denied any wrongdoing and condemned the second verdict as "absolutely ridiculous."

On Monday, Habba wrote to Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the second case, suggesting he gave "preferential treatment" to Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan (no relation), because the pair worked together in the 1990s. She said this would form part of the basis for Trump's appeal and could lead to "new trials" being needed in the case." 

From Newsweek

"Trump attorney Alina Habba may have made up a fake person to push her arguments in the former president's defamation case, the lawyer for columnist E. Jean Carroll alleges.

In a Tuesday letter to the judge presiding over the defamation trial, Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, raised her concerns that Habba used a fake person to promote her accusations that she and the judge had a conflict of interest." 

From Newsweek

"Donald Trump’s lawyer backtracked from her suggestion that a new trial may be warranted in writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation suit against the former president because the presiding judge in the case worked at the same law firm as the New York writer’s attorney three decades ago.

Trump attorney Alina Habba changed course Tuesday two hours after Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan blasted her in a court filing for raising “utterly baseless” questions about her past ties to US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, with whom she worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison for less than two years in the 1990s. Kaplan — who isn’t related to the judge — raised the prospect of seeking sanctions against Habba over her “false allegations.”

“Since Ms. Kaplan has now denied that there was ever a mentor-mentee relationship between herself and Your Honor, this issue has seemingly been resolved,” Habba said in her letter to the judge.

Habba questioned the relationship in a letter to the judge on Monday, three days after a jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages for defaming the former Elle magazine columnist in 2019 statements denying her claim that he sexually assaulted her decades earlier. Habba cited a New York Post article that said the lawyer had a “mentor” type relationship with the judge when they were at the law firm. Habba was quoted calling the relationship “insane” and “so incestuous.”

From Bloomberg Law

"A former attorney for former President Trump criticized his lawyer Alina Habba in a CNN interview Friday, after a jury ordered the former president to pay $83.3 million in damages to writer E. Jean Carroll.

“I would regret having her represent him,” Tim Parlatore told CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins. “I mean, I do think that in both of these trials, he was essentially undefended. And I think that it could have turned out differently.” 

From The Hill

"Alina Habba is not really a trial lawyer. She can barely afford to do whatever she does as a lawyer right now. She's more of a public relations lawyer, if anything at all, who makes her living trying her client's cases on TV and on social media. But she's officially Donald Trump's civil lawyer right now because she's about the best of what's left to try to defend him, because of his own financial situation and all the evidence that's against him right now, in multiple cases." 

From The New Democrat

I swear, when I wrote my first post about Alina Habba back in November, I had no idea who the hell she was, before I did some research on her. But even from what I had on her at that point, I thought she was simply unqualified to to defend someone like Donald Trump. Or especially any former President of the United States, who for some reason found themselves in civil or legal jeopardy. And I stand behind everything that I've written about her the last two months. 

Here's another good quote that is very relevant to the Alina Habba/Trump University school of lawyering (if you want to call this lawyering) 

"There is an old adage among lawyers that says, "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table."

From Martin A. Davis

That's what Alina Habba is doing here. I'm not a psychologist, (in case that's not obvious enough) but if I had to bet (but not my last dollar) I'm guessing that Alina Habba knows that she lost the E. Jean Carroll case, bigly. (To quote Donald J. Trump) 

I mean an 83 million-dollar judgment against your own client, when the original penalty was 5 million, I mean if she was the head coach of the greatest NFL team ever, they would struggle just to win one game the whole season with her as the head coach. Because she doesn't do her homework and would never have her team prepared to play, even the worst teams in the NFL.

Give Alina Habba the fastest car in the world and she would lose to the driver of the 1984 Ford Escort, because she would start off the race in reverse. And it might be 10 miles later before she would figure out she's going the wrong way. 

If Alina Habba was the pilot of a 747 plane going from Detroit to New York, the plane would end up in Seattle 1st. And when they get to Seattle, she would wonder why she's not in Houston instead of New York. 

I mean to call Alina Habba a moron as a lawyer, is almost an insult morons. At least your average moron knows that they're not intelligent. With Alina Habba, she goes with the old spaghetti defense, hoping that if she throws enough spaghetti at the wall, that one piece of that spaghetti will stick and that would be her defense for her client. But now I guess she's run out of spaghetti to throw at the wall and she now has to clean up her own mess. Because she's already backtracking on this latest spaghetti at the wall defense and has retracted her latest letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan. 

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