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Trump Fires Federal Prosecutor Appointed to Replace Alina Habba as US Attorney of New Jersey

President Trump fired the federal prosecutor who was appointed to replace Alina Habba for US Attorney of New Jersey.

Last week it was reported that US Attorney General Pam Bondi promptly removed Alina Habba’s replacement after a group of district court judges voted to oust Habba as interim US Attorney of New Jersey.

A group of federal judges last Tuesday declined to extend Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney of New Jersey after Democrat Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries launched a pressure campaign to oust her.

Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney was set to expire last Friday at 11:59 pm.

Last Tuesday, after a pressure campaign from Jeffries, district court judges voted to oust Alina Habba as interim US Attorney of New Jersey and replaced her with Desiree Leigh Grace.

Alina Habba last Thursday announced that she is now the Acting US Attorney for New Jersey after district court judges ousted her from her post earlier this week.

Alina Habba’s term as interim US Attorney was set to expire last Friday at 11:59 pm so Trump and Bondi outmaneuvered the activist judges.

Habba resigned as Interim US Attorney and is now Acting US Attorney for New Jersey.

On Saturday, President Trump fired Leigh Grace.

Excerpt from Politico:

President Donald Trump moved to fire the career federal prosecutor New Jersey judges picked to be acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, according to court records filed Tuesday.

The Department of Justice revealed Trump’s decision in an email filed with a federal judge in Pennsylvania, who is preparing to weigh in on an escalating fight between the Trump administration and the federal bench in New Jersey.

Documents filed Tuesday by the Justice Department also show the lengths that the Trump administration went to keep Habba on the job and to be sure that Grace got the message she was fired.

Grace said in a LinkedIn post last week that she was honored to be appointed by the judges. At 12:02 a.m. Saturday, when Grace was to have taken office, Saurabh Sharma, a special assistant to the president, emailed Grace arguing the judges lacked the authority to appoint her and “even if” the judges had the authority, the president was removing Grace from office. The same day, Jay Macklin, the general counsel for the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, sent Grace a letter calling out the LinkedIn post saying, “as you are well aware, you were removed from employment.”

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