US EditionHabba Claims ‘Collusion’ by Judges Who Declined to Keep Her as New Jersey US Attorney
A federal judge disqualified Alina Habba from acting as U.S. Attorney due to lack of Senate confirmation, amid legal challenges and opposition from New Jersey senators blocking her nomination.
- On Thursday, a federal judge ruled that Alina Habba's tenure as New Jersey's acting U.S. Attorney since July 1 was unauthorized, requiring her to cease managing prosecutions.
- The ruling followed a bipartisan tradition upheld by Senators Grassley and Tillis, known as the 'blue slip' rule, which blocked Habba's Senate confirmation due to opposition from New Jersey Democrats.
- Habba accused the judges of colluding to prevent her return, criticized them for lacking authority to choose the U.S. Attorney, and claimed that the replacement, Desiree Leigh Grace, was too close to the judiciary.
- Habba told Senators Tillis and Grassley that they were contributing to the problem and opposing the principles they had supported throughout the past four years, while emphasizing that the president had been legitimately elected by a majority of Americans.
- The Department of Justice plans to appeal the judge's decision, which paused the ruling to allow proceedings in a federal appeals court, suggesting ongoing legal disputes over the acting U.S. Attorney's appointment.
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Trump administration appeals ruling rejecting his pick as acting U.S. attorney
Trump officials have appealed a federal judge's ruling that Alina Habba has served 'unlawfully' as acting U.S. attorney in N.J. since July 1. (Photo by Gage Skidmore)The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s recent ruling that Alina Habba has unlawfully served as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor since July 1. Attorney General Pamela Bondi vowed last week to challenge U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann’s ruling, just hours after it was fi…
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Alina Habba Slams Sens. Grassley, Tillis on Blue Slips
By honoring the U.S. Senate's blue-slip tradition, two GOP members are "becoming part of the antithesis" of what President Donald Trump's administration is trying to accomplish, acting New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba said. Habba was nominated for the full-time New Jersey position in March, but Democrat Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim used blue slips to prevent her from advancing in the chamber. Blue slips allow home-state senators to block U…
Habba claims ‘collusion’ by judges who declined to keep her as New Jersey US attorney
Alina Habba on Sunday claimed the federal judges who rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to keep her in place as New Jersey‘s top attorney were colluding to prevent her return to the post. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann…
Habba claims 'collusion' by judges who declined to keep her as New Jersey US attorney
Alina Habba on Sunday claimed the federal judges who rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to keep her in place as New Jersey‘s top attorney were colluding to prevent her return to the post. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann determined Habba had been unlawfully serving as U.S. attorney since July 1 and therefore could not continue overseeing prosecutions as the acting U.S. attorney. The decision set back the administration’s d…
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