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Newark mayor sues Alina Habba over arrest at ICE facility and dropped charges
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47,068 views Jun 4, 2025 #ICE #Immigration #Newark
Newark Mayor Ross Baraka has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney Alina Habba and an investigator at the Department of Homeland Security alleging defamation and violating his Fourth Amendment rights. NBC News' Ryan Reilly has details on the lawsuit after Baraka had been arrested at an ICE detention facility on trespassing charges, which were later dropped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pNlneQaPlo
"Att: Zorax: Alina Habba ‘unlawfully’ working as US attorney in New Jersey, judge rules
[...]The ruling by Brann — a Republican and Obama appointee who sits in Pennsylvania’s Middle District — could also have wider implications for other U.S. attorney’s offices in Los Angeles, Nevada, New Mexico and upstate New York, where the administration has effectively sidestepped or overridden both the Senate confirmation and judicial appointment processes for selecting U.S. attorneys.
P - Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department would “immediately appeal.
[...]Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, has started putting his name on some of the New Jersey office’s work in recent days, an unusual move that appears designed to head off challenges to the authority of those prosecutions if they were signed by Habba alone.
P - Brann’s ruling also has implications for other agencies, said Anne Joseph O’Connell, a Stanford Law School professor who studies the appointments process. She said modern agencies run on the delegation of authority in the face of a broken Senate confirmation process and that some of the particulars in Brann’s ruling would affect other administration officials, like the current head of FEMA."
Frankly it is almost unbelievable that Republican voters don't generally see Trump's administration as lawbreakers ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176650421.. while ..
Trump's clash with the courts is delaying trials in New Jersey and could drag on for months
At least a dozen federal judges have delayed proceedings because of questions about whether Alina Habba — a Trump loyalist — is allowed to prosecute cases.
A judge ruled last week that Alina Habba had been serving unlawfully as U.S. attorney since July 1. | Bonnie Cash/UPI
By Ry Rivard 08/26/2025 04:27 PM EDT
The New Jersey federal court system could be in turmoil for months more, according to a new legal filing that gives the most detailed accounting yet of the fallout from President Donald Trump’s use of a loophole to keep Alina Habba as U.S. attorney.
At least a dozen federal judges in New Jersey have delayed proceedings because of questions about whether Habba — a Trump loyalist — is allowed to prosecute cases, according to a six-page motion submitted Tuesday by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The matters include at least three trials, several guilty plea hearings and several sentencing hearings.
Those delays occurred even before U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann ruled last week that Habba was acting illegally as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
Bondi’s filing came as part of an appeal of that ruling to the 3rd Circuit.
Some delays have been previously reported by POLITICO, including a triple-homicide .. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/two-jersey-city-gang-members-charged-murdering-pregnant-woman-and-two-others .. trial that was being led by the career prosecutor the president fired to make way for Habba to stay in office. That trial, once scheduled for September, is now delayed until November.
After Brann ruled, another judge delayed the sentencing of a CEO convicted of scheming to mislead investors during the pandemic because of questions about Habba’s authority.
Citing such delays, the Justice Department said it and the several criminal defendants who challenged Habba’s authority hoped for a quick resolution to the appeal.
“The parties also agree that these issues of exceptional public importance should be resolved as quickly as reasonably possible,” the DOJ wrote in a motion submitted by Bondi, Habba, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and other officials.
[INSERT: Imagine the USA Department of Justice being led by individuals more loyal to
the president than they are to the constitution. Could only happen in Trump's USA, eh.]
But “quickly” is in the eye of the beholder. A proposed schedule anticipates a series of back-and-forth court filings for seven weeks with oral arguments not until late October or early November. It is unclear how quickly the appeals court would rule after that, and that ruling is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
“The longer it takes to resolve these appeals, the greater the risk that still more matters will be adjourned indefinitely, contrary to the interests of the Government, defendants, and the public in the disposition of criminal cases,” the DOJ wrote.
In the meantime, Habba is allowed to continue running the office, but her authority is in doubt. Amid concerns her work could taint cases, Blanche has begun co-signing some of the office’s work, which is an extraordinarily level of involvement in routine proceedings for the Justice Department’s No. 2 official.
Trump has been escalating his war against a longtime Senate precedent that allows home-state senators to effectively block district court and U.S. attorney nominees they oppose.
Trump used a multistep process to try to keep Habba in charge of the office after a 120-day interim period expired. That effort included withdrawing her Senate nomination, which was already stalled because of opposition by New Jersey Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim.
Justice Department officials have also criticized judges who had tried to block Habba staying in office by exercising a 160-year-old authority judges have to fill certain vacancies when there is not a Senate-confirmed person in the job. In July, the district court judges in New Jersey picked Desiree Leigh Grace, a longtime career prosecutor, to succeed Habba, infuriating Justice Department leaders who had hoped to keep Habba in the position.
Brann ruled last week Habba had been serving unlawfully as U.S. attorney since July 1.
Matt Friedman contributed to this report.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/trumps-courts-new-jersey-habba-00527352
The US constitution says three equal branches of government - legislative, executive and judicial .. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/three-branches/three-branches-of-government . Most all congressional Republicans have shed their accountability duties as easily as Trump has shed his, which leaves the judicial branch as the sole, of the three supposed to be equal constitutional branches of government, branch of government still more than the others respecting and trying to uphold the constitutional rule of law in the USA.
Much thanks and much support must continue to flow to individuals in all three branches still working in accordance with constitutional values.
MSNBC
47,068 views Jun 4, 2025 #ICE #Immigration #Newark
Newark Mayor Ross Baraka has filed a lawsuit against U.S. Attorney Alina Habba and an investigator at the Department of Homeland Security alleging defamation and violating his Fourth Amendment rights. NBC News' Ryan Reilly has details on the lawsuit after Baraka had been arrested at an ICE detention facility on trespassing charges, which were later dropped.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pNlneQaPlo
"Att: Zorax: Alina Habba ‘unlawfully’ working as US attorney in New Jersey, judge rules
[...]The ruling by Brann — a Republican and Obama appointee who sits in Pennsylvania’s Middle District — could also have wider implications for other U.S. attorney’s offices in Los Angeles, Nevada, New Mexico and upstate New York, where the administration has effectively sidestepped or overridden both the Senate confirmation and judicial appointment processes for selecting U.S. attorneys.
P - Attorney General Pam Bondi said the Justice Department would “immediately appeal.
[...]Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, has started putting his name on some of the New Jersey office’s work in recent days, an unusual move that appears designed to head off challenges to the authority of those prosecutions if they were signed by Habba alone.
P - Brann’s ruling also has implications for other agencies, said Anne Joseph O’Connell, a Stanford Law School professor who studies the appointments process. She said modern agencies run on the delegation of authority in the face of a broken Senate confirmation process and that some of the particulars in Brann’s ruling would affect other administration officials, like the current head of FEMA."
Frankly it is almost unbelievable that Republican voters don't generally see Trump's administration as lawbreakers ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176650421.. while ..
Trump's clash with the courts is delaying trials in New Jersey and could drag on for months
At least a dozen federal judges have delayed proceedings because of questions about whether Alina Habba — a Trump loyalist — is allowed to prosecute cases.
A judge ruled last week that Alina Habba had been serving unlawfully as U.S. attorney since July 1. | Bonnie Cash/UPI
By Ry Rivard 08/26/2025 04:27 PM EDT
The New Jersey federal court system could be in turmoil for months more, according to a new legal filing that gives the most detailed accounting yet of the fallout from President Donald Trump’s use of a loophole to keep Alina Habba as U.S. attorney.
At least a dozen federal judges in New Jersey have delayed proceedings because of questions about whether Habba — a Trump loyalist — is allowed to prosecute cases, according to a six-page motion submitted Tuesday by Attorney General Pam Bondi. The matters include at least three trials, several guilty plea hearings and several sentencing hearings.
Those delays occurred even before U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann ruled last week that Habba was acting illegally as the U.S. attorney for New Jersey.
Bondi’s filing came as part of an appeal of that ruling to the 3rd Circuit.
Some delays have been previously reported by POLITICO, including a triple-homicide .. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/two-jersey-city-gang-members-charged-murdering-pregnant-woman-and-two-others .. trial that was being led by the career prosecutor the president fired to make way for Habba to stay in office. That trial, once scheduled for September, is now delayed until November.
After Brann ruled, another judge delayed the sentencing of a CEO convicted of scheming to mislead investors during the pandemic because of questions about Habba’s authority.
Citing such delays, the Justice Department said it and the several criminal defendants who challenged Habba’s authority hoped for a quick resolution to the appeal.
“The parties also agree that these issues of exceptional public importance should be resolved as quickly as reasonably possible,” the DOJ wrote in a motion submitted by Bondi, Habba, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and other officials.
[INSERT: Imagine the USA Department of Justice being led by individuals more loyal to
the president than they are to the constitution. Could only happen in Trump's USA, eh.]
But “quickly” is in the eye of the beholder. A proposed schedule anticipates a series of back-and-forth court filings for seven weeks with oral arguments not until late October or early November. It is unclear how quickly the appeals court would rule after that, and that ruling is likely to be appealed to the Supreme Court.
“The longer it takes to resolve these appeals, the greater the risk that still more matters will be adjourned indefinitely, contrary to the interests of the Government, defendants, and the public in the disposition of criminal cases,” the DOJ wrote.
In the meantime, Habba is allowed to continue running the office, but her authority is in doubt. Amid concerns her work could taint cases, Blanche has begun co-signing some of the office’s work, which is an extraordinarily level of involvement in routine proceedings for the Justice Department’s No. 2 official.
Trump has been escalating his war against a longtime Senate precedent that allows home-state senators to effectively block district court and U.S. attorney nominees they oppose.
Trump used a multistep process to try to keep Habba in charge of the office after a 120-day interim period expired. That effort included withdrawing her Senate nomination, which was already stalled because of opposition by New Jersey Democratic Sens. Cory Booker and Andy Kim.
Justice Department officials have also criticized judges who had tried to block Habba staying in office by exercising a 160-year-old authority judges have to fill certain vacancies when there is not a Senate-confirmed person in the job. In July, the district court judges in New Jersey picked Desiree Leigh Grace, a longtime career prosecutor, to succeed Habba, infuriating Justice Department leaders who had hoped to keep Habba in the position.
Brann ruled last week Habba had been serving unlawfully as U.S. attorney since July 1.
Matt Friedman contributed to this report.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/26/trumps-courts-new-jersey-habba-00527352
The US constitution says three equal branches of government - legislative, executive and judicial .. https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/three-branches/three-branches-of-government . Most all congressional Republicans have shed their accountability duties as easily as Trump has shed his, which leaves the judicial branch as the sole, of the three supposed to be equal constitutional branches of government, branch of government still more than the others respecting and trying to uphold the constitutional rule of law in the USA.
Much thanks and much support must continue to flow to individuals in all three branches still working in accordance with constitutional values.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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