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WASHINGTON – The US District Court Judges’ Committee of Judges in New Jersey has refused to permanently appoint President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Alina Haba, according to a court order.
Haba has been an interim US lawyer for New Jersey since being appointed to Trump in March, but was limited by law to 120 days unless the court agreed to keep her. The US Senate has yet to act on a formal nomination for her role, filed by Trump this month.
The court appointed Desiree Grace, the second counsel for the firm, instead, the order said.
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Upstate District of New York refused to retain Trump’s U.S. attorney, Pick John Salcone, after his 120-day term approached expiration.
According to the New York Times, Salcone managed to stay in the office after the Justice Department named him a “special lawyer for the Attorney General.”
Haba’s brief tenure as a New Jersey interim US lawyer included the filing of multiple legal actions against Democratic election officials.
Her office has brought criminal charges against Democrats, U.S. Representative Ramonica McQuiver, just as she and other members of Congress and Newark’s Democratic mayor, Las Baraka, tried to visit the Immigration Detention Center.
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The scene was confused after immigration agents tried to arrest Baraka for trespassing, and McQuiver’s elbow appeared to make easy contact with the immigration officer.
Habba’s office accused McIver of attacking law enforcement officials twice and obstructing them. McQuiber pleaded not guilty.
Habba’s office failed to comply with the Department of Justice rules, so prosecutors had requested that permission be requested from the Public Integrity Section before filing criminal charges against members of Congress for conduct related to official duties.
Habba’s office also indicted Baraka, but later dropped the case, urging a federal judge to criticize her office for handling the matter.
Before March, Haba had never worked as a prosecutor.
She represented Trump in various civil lawsuits, including a trial in which the ju judge found liability for slandering author E. Jean Carroll after accusing her of raping her in the department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
In 2023, a federal judge in Florida approved Trump and Haba and ordered him to pay $1 million for filing a frivolous lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton and others conspired to damage Trump’s reputation in an investigation into Trump’s 2016 presidential election.
