Former Attorney General Eric Holder expressed concern on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” about the Supreme Court’s “legitimacy” being at stake based on how they rule on cases involving former President Donald Trump.
Holder suggested that ruling in favor of Trump’s assertions, particularly in his appeal to be eligible for office, would risk the court’s perception by the American people.
He emphasized that there is no constitutional basis or historical precedent for such rulings, and supporting them would jeopardize the principles of democracy and the rule of law.
“I’m looking here and we were reading through and my producers are reading through the Supreme Court filing that was made today by Donald Trump because it should be absurd,” Joy Reid said.
“Even with this Supreme Court, with this ultra conservative super majority, there’s not a basis for finding in favor of the assertions he is making. You know, the court’s legitimacy is at stake here in a way that I think really goes to the way in which it will be viewed, that body will be viewed by the American people,” Holder said.
“To rule for the Trump camp, to say there’s any basis to those five assertions that he has made really puts at risk how the court will be viewed by the American public. There is again no constitutional basis for it, no historical precedent for it. That is not the way in which our nation has been formed or for which the American Revolution was actually conducted.”
“I think that anybody who lines up in support of that really puts at risk our democracy and really puts at risk the notion that we are one person, one vote, that the people decide things, that no one is above the law. puts at risk the whole notion of the rule of law,” he added.
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