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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Wed Mar 18, 2026, 09:15 PM 8 hrs ago

Furious Judge Throws Trump Prosecutor Out of Courtroom in Child Porn Hearing, Orders DOJ Officials to Testify About Alin

Alina Habba’s Role

An exasperated federal judge in New Jersey tossed a prosecutor out of his courtroom Monday after a contentious sentencing hearing in a child pornography case and ordered senior officials from the local U.S. Attorney’s Office to come testify about who was actually running their office.

The kerfuffle traces back to President Donald Trump’s appointment of Alina Habba as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey a year ago, after she had represented him and his super PAC for several years.

In August, Judge Matthew S. Brann, an Obama appointee with the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania (specially presiding for the New Jersey court), ruled Habba was not “lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office of
the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey” and therefore “[h]er actions since [her appointment] may be declared void…[a]nd because she is not currently qualified to exercise the functions and duties of the office in an acting capacity, she must be disqualified from participating in any ongoing cases.”

Brann’s ruling was upheld at the beginning of this month by a unanimous three-judge panel (two Bush appointees and one Biden appointee) on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/furious-judge-throws-trump-prosecutor-201503683.html
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Furious Judge Throws Trump Prosecutor Out of Courtroom in Child Porn Hearing, Orders DOJ Officials to Testify About Alin (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 8 hrs ago OP
This courtroom is better than any reality TV show. Irish_Dem 8 hrs ago #1
I bet trump bought those giant diamond studs Figarosmom 5 hrs ago #2
ding. this . AllaN01Bear 5 hrs ago #3
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