New Jersey Democrats slam Trump gambit to install Habba as US attorney without approval [View all]
Source: Courthouse News Service
July 25, 2025
WASHINGTON (CN) — New Jersey’s Democratic senators are furious with the Donald Trump administration after their home state’s interim U.S. attorney signaled that she would remain in her position beyond the end of her term — and after the Justice Department fired her replacement.
The White House on Thursday withdrew Alina Habba’s nomination for U.S. attorney for New Jersey, just hours before her 120-day stint as the district’s acting lead federal prosecutor was set to expire. But in a post on X Thursday evening, Habba suggested that she would continue serving in that role anyway.
“Donald Trump is the 47th president,” she wrote. “Pam Bondi is the attorney general. And I am now the acting United States attorney for the District of New Jersey.”
Though the legal backing for the move was not immediately clear, it appears as though the Trump administration may be taking the initial steps to keep Habba on indefinitely as New Jersey’s top prosecutor without approval of the courts or Congress — following a playbook the White House has already used elsewhere.
Read more: https://www.courthousenews.com/new-jersey-democrats-slam-trump-gambit-to-install-habba-as-us-attorney-without-approval/
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