Judges appoint career prosecutor as New Jersey US attorney in apparent end to standoff
Source: Politico
03/23/2026 02:30 PM EDT
Amid escalating chaos in New Jersey’s federal courts due to a leadership vacuum, the state’s district court judges and the Trump administration appear to have reached a deal on who will lead the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office. In a one-sentence order posted to the New Jersey courts’ website Monday, Chief Judge Renée Marie Bumb announced that Robert Frazer, a career prosecutor in the office and currently its senior trial counsel, has been appointed U.S. attorney effective today.
The appointment will not expire unless and until a presidentially-nominated successor is confirmed, though President Donald Trump has fired judicially-appointed interim U.S. attorneys in New Jersey and elsewhere.
But this pick appears to have the support of the Trump administration based on a social media post from Alina Habba, who filled the job last year before resigning after a court ruled she could not hold it. Habba, who now works as a senior adviser to the U.S. attorney general, praised Frazer and suggested that the Trump administration and the district court’s judges had worked together to pick him for the job. ”New Jersey deserves a great chief federal law enforcement official who is in line with President Trump’s agenda of making this country safe and NJ great! I know Rob well and he will be a great champion of this state and mission” of the DOJ, Habba wrote on social media.
She added that it “should be clear” that when judges work with the attorney general and deputy attorney general under Trump “to collaborate on serving what an overwhelming majority of Americans asked for at the ballots and not attack mindlessly for political gain THINGS GET DONE.” Little public information is available about Frazer, though based on a letter from the U.S. Attorney’s Office, he has more than two decades of experience in the office, having served through several presidential administrations.
Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/23/new-jersey-us-attorney-00840190
She's full of shit given she was removed from the position and publicly raked through the coals by the judiciary,
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Really is the living definition of the 'C' - word.
