Donald Trump’s Lawyer Keeps Botching Basic Trial Procedure — Don’t Grow Up To Be Alina

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Alina Habba is having a rough go of it in Judge Kaplan’s courtroom. She’s earned a rebuke for forgetting to stand up, failed to premark exhibits, gotten a lecture on basic Evidence rules, and tried to chastise the judge… which went over about as well as you’d expect.

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Apparently, faking being smart isn’t working out for her.

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Alina Habba proved in court today that this statement is categorically false. pic.twitter.com/MKSsF0zVX3

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) January 17, 2024

Law schools notoriously struggle to create “practice ready” lawyers. While some institutions offer top-notch clinical experiences, there’s no easy way to immerse students in practice when every few hours they need to close up shop on that draft memo to read 50 pages of commentary for their doctrinal Law of Basketweaving course.

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