Alina Habba's 120-day term as President Trump's appointed Interim U.S. Attorney for the State of New Jersey recently expired without the Senate ever voting on her nomination. A panel of U.S. District Court Judges used a rarely invoked and unconstitutional federal statute to appoint a new and different Interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, Desiree Leigh Grace, who had been Ms. Habba's first assistant.
Attorney General Bondi fired the court-appointed Interim U.S. Attorney the day she was appointed, saying "This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges—especially when they threaten the President's core Article II powers."
On Thursday, July 24, President Trump withdrew Alina Habba's nomination to be U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, and Attorney General Bondi then appointed her First Assistant in that U.S. Attorney's Office and also appointed her Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey for the next 210 days under the Vacancies Act, 5 U.S.C. § 3345 et seq.
