Florida state Rep. Alina Garcia won’t seek reelection to her state House seat in November and will instead run for Miami-Dade County supervisor of elections, she said on Thursday. Garcia, a Miami Republican who was just elected to her House seat in 2022, becomes the latest candidate to jump into the race to succeed outgoing […]
E. Jean Carroll attorneys Roberta Kaplan and Matthew Craig are still processing the levels of stress they endured while working across from Trump lawyer Alina Habba during the now concluded defamation trial. On Friday, Salon’s Senior News Editor, Igor Derysh, reported on Kaplan’s revelation in a podcast interview with George Conway that Trump called her a euphemism for the c-word in a […]
Ty Cobb, a former White House attorney to Donald Trump, on Wednesday gave a short yet stinging summary of current Trump attorney Alina Habba. Habba represented Trump in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against the former president. Last week, a jury ordered Trump to pay his accuser $83.3 million. Last year, a jury found Trump […]
Former President Donald Trump‘s attorney Alina Habba on Tuesday backed off of a conflict of interest claim against the judge who presided over the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial after Carroll’s lawyer threatened to pursue sanctions. Habba on Monday filed a letter with the court citing a New York Post story that said U.S. District […]
Trump and Carroll are fighting over his attorney’s new claim that the judge was once her lawyer’s “mentor.” Carroll’s lawyer says she has no memory of the judge when they briefly overlapped at a giant law firm 30 years ago. Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, threatened more sanctions against Trump lawyer Alina Habba. E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer […]
E. Jean Carroll‘s lawyer said Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba acted more professional when Trump wasn’t around. Habba “was much more disciplined” and “acted more like a lawyer,” Carroll lawyer Shawn Crowley said. Habba’s courtroom antics made headlines during the Carroll defamation trial against Trump. Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba — whose courtroom antics in the […]
You asked me that question. No, I’m not having any second thoughts about representing President Trump. It is the proudest thing I could ever do. What I am having second thoughts about is the license that I stand here with that the people in there are supposed to have. I have not spoken because I […]
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, the federal judge overseeing former President Trump’s defamation trial brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll, threatened to send Trump attorney Alina Habba to jail after she interrupted him during Friday’s proceedings. “You are on the verge of spending some time in the lockup. Now sit down,” Kaplan told Habba during […]
Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, was spotted rubbing elbows with Republicans in New Hampshire on Tuesday, just the day after asking for a delay in the ex-president’s defamation trial because she was feeling under the weather. On Monday, one of the nine jurors considering writer E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation suit against Trump was excused for […]
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan erupted at Trump lawyer Alina Habba when she asked for an adjournment of E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation trial against the former president, which began on Tuesday. Habba asked Kaplan to delay the proceedings so that Trump could attend his mother-in-law’s funeral, a request which Kaplan sharply denied. Politico reporter […]
MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday argued why Alina Habba is now “the current front-runner as worst Trump lawyer to appear in court so far.” The “Last Word” anchor pointed to Habba’s admission in court that, “I don’t know how to try this case, your honor.” Habba’s declaration came after the Trump legal team’s pre-trial objections […]
Donald Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, claimed that she’d rather be “pretty” than “smart” during an appearance on the conservative “PBD Podcast” on Jan. 4. Habba and the podcast’s hosts, Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, and Vincent Oshana, were discussing the twice-impeached ex-president’s multiple indictments when Sosnick noted that the attorney was “an attractive woman,” and he […]