Alina Habba Celebrates Supreme Court’s Trump Immunity Decision on Fox: ‘Sorry, Jack Smith’
Former President Donald Trump’s legal spokeswoman Alina Habba celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision to grant himself and other commanders-in-chief immunity from prosecutions for actions taken in their official capacity on Fox News Monday morning.
“Obviously, I haven’t read the decision as it just came out and I’ve read little parts of it. Here’s what I think” I think that the justices made the right decision,” said Habba minutes after the decision came out.
“Absolute immunity is important for all presidents, I’ve said it time and time again. I’ve argued on immunity for President Trump, and I think they did get right that they recognize absolute immunity exists,” she argued. “Another thing that I do think needs to be pointed out is that they said presumptive immunity exists for acts within the outer perimeter of his official acts. So what’s going to happen now is that they basically have said, ‘Sorry, Jack Smith, you don’t get to just impede and intrude on the executive branch.’ We get to have protections for presidents who are doing things while they are in office so that they don’t come out and get targeted and criminally and civilly sued. It’s incredibly important. It was a good decision.”
She continued:
I think the American people think that these cases should never have existed, let’s just be clear. But now we are in this political attack on a leading candidate because they can’t win with their candidate, so we are where we are. Now as a legal, as an attorney, as a legal spokesperson, I would just say this: Of course, it is a good day when the Supreme Court recognizes constitutional rights of presidents and the executive branch. But we should never have been in this situation to start with. This is a disgrace to America. So, yes, the lower courts again, we’ll have to hear it. It will, in my opinion, slow down Jack Smith’s persecution and selective prosecution of President Trump. And I don’t see how this case could go forward before the election. But again, I would say that there’s still issues to be discussed, such as how Jack Smith even got into this position, how we allowed our democracy, how we allowed the republic to become one that targets political opponents. We should, the fact that we’ve been in front of the Supreme Court so many times is, frankly, a sad day for the American people. It’s election interference at its finest. But I’m happy today. I think that Chief Roberts, Chief Justice Roberts, made a good decision for what I’m seeing. Obviously, I need to read it fully, but recognizing Nixon v. Fitzgerald, upholding that decision, and stating that absolute immunity does exist for presidents is a good thing. It’s an important thing for all Americans, both Democrat and Republican.
The Supreme Court’s decision grants presidents immunity from prosecution for official acts, but no immunity for unofficial acts.
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