JUDICIAL COUP: Rogue Judges Block Alina Habba from Becoming U.S. Attorney in New Jersey

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Rogue Democrat judges have nullfied elections as they see themselves as the rulers of this great nation.

Appeals court disqualifies former Trump lawyer Alina Habba from serving as interim US attorney for New Jersey

By Samuel Chamberlain, NY Post, Dec. 1, 2025

Acting New Jersey US Attorney Alina Habba is disqualified after the Trump administration violated federal law to keep her in post, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

The three-judge panel unanimously upheld a lower court judge’s disqualification order that found Habba’s appointment was non-compliant with a 1998 law governing federal vacancies.

A federal appeals court ruled that interim US Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba is disqualified from serving in that role.

“It is apparent that the current administration has been frustrated by some of the legal and political barriers to getting its appointees in place,” senior US Circuit Judge D. Michael Fisher wrote in the 32-page ruling.

“Its efforts to elevate its preferred candidate for US Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Alina Habba, to the role of Acting US Attorney demonstrate the difficulties it has faced—yet the citizens of New Jersey and the loyal employees in the US Attorney’s Office deserve some clarity and stability.”

The panel, made up of two judges appointed by former President George W. Bush and one appointed by former President Barack Obama, sided with the initial ruling after hearing arguments at which Habba — a former personal attorney for Trump — was present Oct. 20.

Monday’s ruling is the latest legal setback for the White House after a federal judge last week dismissed Virginia criminal cases against former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

In those cases, the judge concluded that the prosecutor who filed the charges, Lindsey Halligan, was unlawfully appointed to the position of interim US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia. The Justice Department has said it intends to appeal those rulings.

A similar dynamic is playing out in Nevada, where a federal judge disqualified the Trump administration’s pick to be US attorney there.

Habba’s appointment had been challenged by defendants in two federal criminal cases out of New Jersey. The lower court judge granted their motions to disqualify her from the prosecution and invalidate her actions dating from late July, but stayed the order pending appeal.

The government argued Habba was validly serving in the role under a federal statute allowing the first assistant attorney, a post she was appointed to by the Trump administration, to “temporarily” perform the duties of US attorney.

Habba, 41, was initially sworn in as the Garden State’s top prosecutor March 28, an appointment meant to last 120 days. On July 22, a panel of federal judges voted not to extend her term, elevating First Assistant US Attorney Desiree Grace to the post.

Attorney General Pam Bondi promptly fired Grace and replaced her with Habba.

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