Alina Habba's position as US Attorney for New Jersey is found by a court to be
unlawful.
Unlike the recent well publicised Halligan case involving James Comey and Letitia James, this hearing was at appeal court level, with the unanimous decision being writted by a Bush appointee.
“It is apparent that the current administration has been frustrated by some of the legal and political barriers to getting its appointees in place,” Judge D. Michael Fisher, an appointee of President George W. Bush, wrote in the 32-page opinion. “Its efforts to elevate its preferred candidate for U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, Alina Habba, to the role of Acting U.S. Attorney demonstrate the difficulties it has faced — yet the citizens of New Jersey and the loyal employees in the U.S. Attorney’s Office deserve some clarity and stability.”
Habba is the latest, (the fifth I think) regime prosecutor to have been found to not be legally appointed. The next hearing is the appointee for the Northern District of New York, which is due to heard later this week.