"The Department of Justice (DOJ) will “immediately appeal” a federal judge’s decision that said President Donald Trump’s pick for acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, Alina Habba, was not “lawfully” appointed to the position.
“The Executive branch has perpetuated Alina Habba’s appointment to act as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey through a novel series of legal and personnel moves,” wrote the Obama-appointed judge.
The DOJ fired Habba’s replacement, Desiree Grace, just hours after the district judges voted her in.
While Trump nominated Habba for the full four-year term in July, she currently has no path to confirmation as her state’s two Democrat senators, Cory Booker and Andy Kim, said they will not support her.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R) has not moved forward with Habba’s nomination because Booker and Kim have refused to turn over their blue slips for her as per Senate tradition, garnering ire from both Habba and Trump.
“Chuck Grassley, who I got re-elected to the U.S. Senate when he was down, by a lot, in the Great State of Iowa, could solve the ‘Blue Slip’ problem we are having with respect to the appointment of Highly Qualified Judges and U.S. Attorneys, with a mere flick of the pen,” Trump wrote in a July Truth Social post."
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