‘The View’ Host Sunny Hostin Shocks Audience With Reaction To Trump Ruling: ‘Right Decision’

The View co-host Sunny Hostin praised the “dissent” from liberal justices in Monday’s ruling that affirmed former President Donald Trump’s ability to appear on the ballot in all 50 states. In a shock to many viewers, Hostin also noted that she agreed with the ruling.

“The Supreme Court has just ruled unanimously that Colorado courts cannot keep you know who off the state’s ballot for engaging in insurrection,” Whoopi Goldberg announced moments after the ruling was handed down, drawing audible groans from the crowd.

When she asked for the panel’s thoughts on the decision, Hostin said she largely agreed with the ruling. “I actually think it was the right decision to make because it would have, you know, if Colorado had been allowed to do that, we’d have this chaotic sort of process where you have 50 states and some are choosing to put him on the ballot and some are choosing not to put him on the ballot,” she said.

Hostin then went on to praise the “dissent” from liberal justices Sotomayor, Kagan and Jackson even though the ruling was unanimous. “So that’s why this decision was unanimous in judgment. But if you read the dissent by justices Sotomayor and Kagan and also Jackson, they are saying the Supreme Court went too far here because they answered a question that wasn’t before them,” Hostin said.

“The only question that was before this court was can a state do this? Instead, what they did was they insulated all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office. And it is a tenet of Supreme Court law,” she continued. Hostin, who made sure to note that she is a “Supreme Court admitted, bar admitted attorney,” argued that the court’s ruling should have been more narrow in scope.

“We always learn that in law school,” she added. “The Supreme Court should just answer the question before it. And I had far too much, hope that the court would be united in this and not overstep in favor of Donald Trump and I think what we saw was a court where justices that behaved in a partisan matter, and that disappoints me.”