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Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba's "flagrant disregard" for courtroom rules could pave the way for Judge Lewis Kaplan to refer her to the State Bar for a hearing and investigation.

According to former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance, the E. Jean Carroll case judge would be completely within his rights to ask the New York State Bar Association to review the former president's attorney's conduct after Kaplan repeatedly was forced to admonish her during the two-week trial.

On her Substack platform, Vance suggested that Habba's lack of legal skills and knowledge about the rules of evidence aren't the issue so much as the chaos she repeatedly created in the civil trial she ultimately lost which cost her client $83.3 million on Friday.

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According to Vance, who called Habba's outbursts "disgraceful," she, "... would not be surprised to see the Judge refer her to the Bar Association for disciplinary action."

Clarifying her reasoning, she explained, "It wasn’t her novice mistakes that were the issue, although they caused a lot of comments. It was her flagrant disregard of the Judge’s decisions about arguments that could and could not be made to the jury. She trod on those rulings despite repeated warnings from the Judge."

Vance added the proper procedure when a lawyer feels the judge erred is to take it up later in an appeal.

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) — who is thought of as a leading candidate to be former President Donald Trump's 2024 running mate — recently deleted a 2021 statement from her website calling for the prosecution of January 6 participants.

Stefanik apparently deleted the statement after former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) linked to it on Saturday. On her official X/Twitter account, Cheney called the statement a "rare moment of honesty" from the woman who replaced her as House Republican Conference chair, adding that "she will have to explain how and why she morphed into a total crackpot."

Appearing on MSNBC with host Ali Velshi, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin claimed Donald Trump is finally running into some major headwinds as he makes his third run for the presidency and a major one is questions about his mental decline.

According to the journalist, even Republicans are starting to admit the former president is not all there — something that has become a major talking point in South Carolina Republican Nikki Haley's campaign.

Pointing to President Joe Biden's re-election campaign, she told the host, "The economy is pretty good and it's been good for a while, of course, but you wouldn't know it from some of the coverage. Now, I think that has shifted quite dramatically and Biden is getting some recognition."

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Adding, "I think there's a lot of things that we don't normally credit with for President Biden, and the last is that it's becoming pretty apparent, even to Republicans, that he [Trump] has got a screw loose."

"He slurs his words, he gets confused. That's what Nikki Haley has been exploiting finally," she elaborated. "It's not going to help her with the Republican base, but it sure is going to provide a lot of material for President Biden in the general election."

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Friday's $83.3 million judgment against former President Donald Trump in writer E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit is proof that the former president can and will be convicted in criminal court, according to a veteran federal prosecutor.

In a Saturday thread posted to X (formerly Twitter), Glenn Kirschner — who was an assistant US Attorney in the office of the US Attorney for the District of Columbia — predicted that Carroll's judgment is merely the first guilty verdict in court Trump will experience in 2024.