Although some members of Donald Trump's base supported the way that Alina Habba spoke about Judge Arthur Engoron, legal experts provided a different take. The reason for this is that, at one point in her lunch break press conference, Habba specifically complained about the way that Engoron had told her to sit down during the trail. "I was told to sit down today. I was yelled at. And, I have had a judge, who is unhinged, slamming a table," she told reporters. At another point in her speech, Habba described "courtrooms where attorneys are gagged. Where attorneys are not allowed to say what they need to say to protect their client's interests." These comments seemed directed specifically at Engoron.

According to some legal experts, however, it is fairly normal for judges to tell attorneys to sit in certain circumstances. As attorney and occasional television personality, Bradley P. Moss, wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, "I have had the current Attorney General and a current Supreme Court justice, at the time serving in their respective positions on the DC Circuit, chastise me in two different proceedings." He then added, "Get over it." Katie Phang, who works as a legal analyst for MSNBC, expressed a similar sentiment in another X post, tweeting, "Spoken like a lawyer who: (1) doesn't try cases and (2) doesn't know how to act in front of a judge."