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Habba set to remain top federal prosecutor in New Jersey despite ouster by judges
President Trump’s pick for New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, Alina Habba, on Thursday said she would continue on in the position despite a judicial decision declining to extend her interim status and instead opting to replace her.She doubled down in her first remarks since the decision, declaring that she is now the state’s acting U.S. attorney.
“Donald J. Trump is the 47th President. Pam Bondi is the Attorney General. And I am now the Acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey,” Habba said in a statement posted to the social platform X. “I don’t cower to pressure. I don’t answer to politics. This is a fight for justice. And I’m all in.”
It began Tuesday when the court issued a terse standing order declining to retain Habba at the end of her 120-day trial period. They appointed Grace, who was Habba’s first assistant, to serve in the role indefinitely after a private vote Monday.
The district court's order makes it plain enough.
Habba is out. The thing is, trump wants to infest the bench with as many loyalists as possible. And he's willing to once again defy a court order to achieve that end.