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After a criminal defense attorney for an accused drug trafficker complained, Alina Habba insists her reappointment as acting U.S. attorney was the real deal. The post 'The premise is wrong' and 'fails for many reasons': Alina Habba tells judge she actually was lawfully reappointed as acting US attorney — and this is why first appeared on Law & Crime.
One day after a New Jersey defendant filed a motion arguing that allowing acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba to prosecute his case would be a violation of
Habba’s term as the interim U.S. attorney expired this week, and since the Senate never voted to confirm her, it was up to federal judges in the state to vote to extend her term—which they declined to do, instead appointing her deputy Desiree Leigh Grace to fill the role on Tuesday.
In a span of eight days, Alina Habba was accused of violating the Hatch Act; removed as interim U.S. attorney by district court judges and replaced with a career prosecutor who was quickly fired by the Trump administration; and then named acting U.S. attorney.
Alina Habba, President Donald Trump 's former personal defense lawyer, declared on Thursday that she has resumed her post as acting U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey.