Headline: New York Times, 7/22/2025
Tracey Tully and Jonah E. Bromwich report:
The panel of federal judges rejected Alina Habba’s bid to stay in the job as the state’s U.S. attorney. Instead, they invoked a rarely used power to select a candidate of their own, Desiree Leigh Grace, an experienced prosecutor whom Ms. Habba named as her first assistant soon after she took over as interim U.S. attorney in March.
But the attorney general, Pam Bondi, responded Tuesday evening with a social media post defending Ms. Habba and saying that the first assistant — Ms. Grace — “has just been removed.”
“This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers,” Ms. Bondi wrote.
The rapid sequence of events raises the prospect of yet another confrontation between the Trump administration and the federal judiciary. Ms. Grace’s apparent removal from the office may not nullify the judges’ decision to appoint her as the New Jersey U.S. attorney, but is it unclear whether the judges will be able to enforce their appointment.
Original 7/22/2025 post, "Whew! The Alina Habba Clown Show ends after 120 days: starts here.
Headline: New York Times, 7/22/2025
A panel of federal judges in New Jersey on Tuesday rejected Alina Habba’s bid to stay in the job as the state’s U.S. attorney and instead invoked a rarely used power to select a candidate of their own to take over as the state’s top federal prosecutor.
The judges announced that they had appointed Desiree Leigh Grace, an experienced prosecutor whom Ms. Habba named as her first assistant soon after she took over as interim U.S. attorney in March. The appointment is effective as of Tuesday or, alternately, upon the expiration of the 120 days of Ms. Habba’s term, according to an order signed by the district’s chief judge, Renée Marie Bumb.
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