An exchange between the judge overseeing writer E. Jean Carroll's second defamation trial against Donald Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba is being compared to the hit movie "Legally Blonde."
Last week, Habba asked U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to postpone the trial so Trump could attend his mother-in-law's funeral. Kaplan rejected the request.
"The application is denied. I will hear no further argument on it, none. Do you understand that word? None. Please sit down," Kaplan told Habba, prompting her to fire back.
"I don't like to be spoken to that way and we're going to be here for several days," Habba replied. "I'm not going to speak to Carroll lawyer Roberta Kaplan like that, I will not speak to you like that. I'm asking your honor to please refrain from speaking to me in that manner."
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Speaking on the Cafe Insider podcast, former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance recounted the exchange and asked, "This is a scene from Legally Blonde right?"
There are ways to do this but it's not 'oh judge this is Mean Girls in high school and I'm going to out-mean you.'"
According to Vance's co-host, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara, the criticism of Alina Habba, "Was less criticism of her and more a real bewilderment that she was the best a former president could field in a case of this significance."
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