Judge Drops the Hammer: Alina Habba Serving as U.S. Attorney “Without Legal Authority”
A federal judge just ruled that Alina Habba, Trump’s handpicked U.S. attorney in New Jersey, has no lawful authority to hold the job.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann found that Habba’s 120-day interim appointment expired months ago and that the Justice Department’s creative attempt to keep her in place didn’t pass constitutional muster. He ordered that she be disqualified from any ongoing cases—though he temporarily paused the ruling to give DOJ time to appeal.
“Faced with the question of whether Ms. Habba is lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office of the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey,” Brann wrote, “I conclude that she is not.” That’s as blunt as a gavel gets.
This decision isn’t just about one Trump loyalist. The administration has used similar procedural gymnastics to keep other controversial interim prosecutors in California, Arizona, New Mexico, and New York. If Brann’s ruling holds, the domino effect could upend Trump’s broader strategy of stocking U.S. attorney offices with political loyalists.
Habba, who first entered Trumpworld as one of his personal attorneys, was already rejected by New Jersey’s federal judges at the end of her interim term. Instead of letting a veteran prosecutor take over, DOJ fired the replacement and shuffled Habba into a deputy slot—allowing her to reclaim control as “acting” U.S. attorney. Legal experts had called that maneuver “unusual at best, unlawful at worst.” Now a judge has agreed with the latter.
The kicker? It wasn’t even watchdog groups or Democrats who pushed this ruling—it was criminal defendants facing prosecution from her office who argued she had no standing to charge them. That tells you everything about the chaos this strategy created.
Source: Washington Post
Trump tried to turn federal prosecutors into his own personal legal defense squad, and the courts just called his bluff.
And now we wait for the cuck Supreme Court to overturn this.