Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) accused Donald Trump‘s legal team of having a “mobster’s mentality” following the comments from one of the former president’s lawyers.
Raskin appeared on The Last Word on Friday to react to the comments made by attorney Alina Habba. The day before, she predicted that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh would help deliver a “slam dunk” in Trump’s Colorado case. The court has agreed to review the state Supreme Court’s ruling to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot.
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“I think it should be a slam dunk in the Supreme Court,” Habba said at the time. “I have faith in them. You know, people like Kavanaugh, who the president fought for, who the president went through hell to get into place. He’ll step up. Those people will step up. Not because they’re pro-Trump, but because they’re pro-law, because they’re pro-fairness. And the law on this is very clear.”
“Well, this is the way that New York mobsters think about judges,” Raskin said in response to Habba’s clip. “‘Yeah, we own that one. We own that one. Get in that court. That guy’s in our pocket.’ And for fascists and authoritarian parties and movements, the law is really not what you know, but it’s who you know. And it’s always better for them to know the judge than to know the law.”
Trump nominated three out of the nine justices on the Supreme Court: Kavanaugh, Neil Gorsuch, and Amy Coney Barrett.
“But to know the law here is to understand that Donald Trump is disqualified,” Raskin said.
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Raskin has called on Justice Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from Trump’s case. He cited Thomas’s wife Ginni’s politics, as she is a Trump supporter and has questioned the 2020 election results publicly.
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington sued Trump for his alleged involvement on Jan. 6, 2021, accusing the former president of violating the 14th Amendment’s insurrection clause. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows followed suit, removing Trump from her state’s ballot and citing the same reasoning.
