{"id":40653,"date":"2025-07-28T19:29:36","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/effort-to-keep-alina-habba-in-post-as-acting-new-jersey-u-s-attorney-sparks-legal-challenge\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T19:29:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:29:36","slug":"effort-to-keep-alina-habba-in-post-as-acting-new-jersey-u-s-attorney-sparks-legal-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/effort-to-keep-alina-habba-in-post-as-acting-new-jersey-u-s-attorney-sparks-legal-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Effort to keep Alina Habba in post as acting New Jersey U.S. attorney sparks legal challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p><em>Washington \u2014 <\/em>President Trump&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-attorney-new-jersey-alina-habba-desiree-leigh-grace-pam-bondi\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">attempt to keep Alina Habba<\/a><\/span>, his former personal lawyer, as New Jersey&#8217;s top federal prosecutor has prompted a legal challenge, as a man facing drug and gun charges has alleged that she holds the office unlawfully.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for the man, Julien Giraud Jr., <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.njd.557842\/gov.uscourts.njd.557842.99.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">asked a federal judge<\/a> Sunday to toss the indictment or bar Habba or any assistants acting under her authority from exercising prosecutorial powers in the case. He argues that Habba&#8217;s appointment Thursday to serve as the acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey violates the Federal Vacancies Reform Act, and said that a district court&#8217;s decision <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alina-habba-new-jersey-judges-block-nomination\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">appointing her then-deputy<\/a><\/span>, Desiree Leigh Grace, to temporarily fill the role as the state&#8217;s top prosecutor is legally controlling.<\/p>\n<p>Giraud is &#8220;facing an imminent criminal trial proceeding under questionable legal authority,&#8221; under Habba, his attorney Thomas Mirigliano wrote in the motion. Mirigliano argued that Habba&#8217;s reappointment after her nomination to become New Jersey&#8217;s U.S. attorney is also unconstitutional. Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/28\/alina-habbas-authority-as-new-jerseys-top-prosecutor-questioned-in-new-legal-filing-00480025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first reported<\/a> the request stemming from Habba&#8217;s position.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By circumventing the constitutionally mandated appointment procedures, and encroaching upon judicial powers explicitly granted by statute, the executive branch has exceeded its lawful authority,&#8221; he wrote, adding that allowing the prosecution of his client to proceed under the current landscape &#8220;would endorse an unconstitutional executive usurpation of judicial authority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The filing from Giraud is the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/u-s-attorney-new-jersey-alina-habba-desiree-leigh-grace-pam-bondi\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">latest twist in Habba&#8217;s tenure<\/a><\/span> as U.S. attorney for New Jersey, which came to a head last week as she neared the end of her limited term serving temporarily in the role.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Federal law restricted Habba&#8217;s time in the post to 120 days, unless the federal district court in the state extended her tenure or she won Senate confirmation. But New Jersey&#8217;s two senators, Democrats Cory Booker and Andy Kim, opposed her nomination, making it highly unlikely it would advance through the upper chamber.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last week, judges on the district court in New Jersey invoked a rarely used authority when they declined to keep Habba in her role of interim U.S. attorney as her 120-day term was set to expire. In her place, the judges selected the No. 2 in the New Jersey U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office, Desiree Leigh Grace, to serve as U.S. attorney for the state until another candidate for the job was nominated by Mr. Trump and confirmed by the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>But after the district court&#8217;s decision, Attorney General Pam Bondi fired Grace, a career prosecutor in the office. Grace said she intended to still serve in the role, sparking confusion over who was leading the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office in the Garden State.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House then pulled Habba&#8217;s nomination to serve as the top prosecutor, a Justice Department official said, as part of a multi-part scheme to keep her temporarily in charge of the office. Following the withdrawal and firing, Habba was appointed first assistant U.S. attorney, Grace&#8217;s job before her removal, which cleared the way for her to temporarily fill the spot of U.S. attorney in New Jersey under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act.<\/p>\n<p>The vacancies law limits Habba&#8217;s time in the position to 210 days from when the vacancy occurred.<\/p>\n<p>Because New Jersey federal judges have a conflict of interest in the Giraud&#8217;s case due to the order to remove Habba and appoint Grace, Mirigliano&#8217;s motion has been assigned to Pennsylvania Judge Matthew Brann, who was appointed to the federal district court by President Barack Obama in 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grace has not indicated whether or not she would challenge Habba&#8217;s control of the office and seek to enforce the judges&#8217; order authorizing her appointment.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorneys Office in New Jersey did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the motion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/jacob-rosen\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Jacob  Rosen<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Jake Rosen is a reporter covering the Department of Justice. 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