Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey

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My guess is that Alina will file an appeal for every case that is decided against the United States on the grounds that her client had incompetent counsel.

Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey

Politics Updated on Mar 28, 2025 4:55 PM EDT — Published on Mar 28, 2025 4:43 PM EDT

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She lists no prosecutorial experience in an online biography. {snip} U.S. attorneys often have experience as prosecutors, including at the state or local level. Many, including the acting U.S. attorneys in Brooklyn and Manhattan, have worked in the offices they now lead. … Habba was one of Trump’s most visible defense attorneys, appearing on cable TV news as his “legal spokesperson.” She represented Trump in 2024 in the defamation case involving E. Jean Carroll.

But Habba has had limited federal court experience, practicing mainly in state-level courts. During the Carroll trial, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan chided Habba for botching procedure, misstating the law asking about off-limits topics and objecting after he ruled. … Habba and Trump were fined nearly $1 million in 2023 for filing what a Florida judge called a bogus lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Habba has also represented Siggy Flicker, formerly of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” in 2021 as she sought to restore her Facebook account, which the reality star claimed had been disabled after she made a post wishing First Lady Melania Trump a happy birthday.

Habba was the plaintiff’s attorney in 2021 a defamation lawsuit against a Portuguese weekly magazine, which was later dismissed.

Associated Press writers Mike Catalini in New Jersey, Aamer Madhani and Will Weissert in Washington and Michael R. Sisak in New York contributed to this report.

[NJCher]

1. hahah

the state attorneys will make mincemeat out of this idiot.

[snowybirdie]

2. So this is the reason

Felon is making a round trip to DC from MAL for a few hours, costing our taxpayers a few million $. She's his honey

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3. I'm old enough to remember when US Attorneys actually had to be smart, not faking being smart.

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4. Deadline: Legal Blog-How a routine drug case could decide Alina Habba's fate as U.S. attorney

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A New Jersey defendant argues that Habba can’t lawfully prosecute the case because she isn’t legally the U.S. attorney for New Jersey.

How a routine drug case could decide Alina Habba’s fate as U.S. attorney. How a routine drug case could decide Alina Habba’s fate as U.S. attorney www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

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https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/alina-habba-us-attorney-julien-giraud-lawsuit-rcna221696

When Julien Giraud Jr. was federally indicted on drug and gun charges last year in New Jersey, he had little reason to think his case would double as a challenge to the lawfulness of Alina Habba’s position as U.S. attorney. But that challenge is now playing out, as the defendant argues that the Trump ally isn’t lawfully serving in her position and therefore the office she purports to lead lacks the authority to prosecute him.....

So what’s Giraud’s argument? In a motion filed Sunday ahead of his trial set for next week, his lawyer Thomas Mirigliano wrote that Habba’s reappointment violated federal law because the fact that Trump submitted Habba’s nomination to the Senate prevents her from serving in an acting capacity, regardless of whether Trump subsequently withdrew her nomination or not. He argued that being prosecuted by an unauthorized U.S. attorney undermines his due process rights, so he asked U.S. District Judge Edward Kiel, the New Jersey judge handling his case, to dismiss the indictment or at least to block Habba or any prosecutor acting under her authority from prosecuting him.

The New York Times reported that federal court proceedings throughout New Jersey “were abruptly canceled on Monday because of uncertainty over” Habba’s authority, citing Giraud’s case and others. Habba is one of several lawyers who represented Trump in his personal capacity and have gone on to high-ranking Justice Department posts during his second term.

After Giraud filed his motion, the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, which covers New Jersey and nearby states, tapped Pennsylvania’s chief federal trial judge for the state’s middle district, Matthew Brann, to preside over the matter. The chief circuit judge made the move under a law that says chief circuit judges “may, in the public interest, designate and assign temporarily any district judge of the circuit to hold a district court in any district within the circuit.”.....

Brann ordered a status conference with the parties to take place Tuesday afternoon at 3:00 p.m., so the direction in which the matter is headed could become clearer later Tuesday. Whatever happens at the trial court level might not be the last word on this consequential and thorny issue, so this could be just the start of drawn-out litigation.

This will be a fun case to watch.