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.
"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."
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 judgesin 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.
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.
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.
Alina Habba Might Ruin ALL Of Trump's Political Prosecutions
"Att: Zorax: Alina Habba ‘unlawfully’ working as US attorney in New Jersey, judge rules"
Related: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/appeals-court-panel-appears-skeptical-of-trump-admin-s-maneuvers-to-keep-alina-habba-in-place/ar-AA1OQ7iE?ocid=BingNewsSerp Nice to see the trump administration getting some push back. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176842627 ** Meanwhile Judge Box O'Wine loses again. 🤣 🤣 🤣 Not guilty verdict in ICE case sends stark message to Trump DOJ’s political prosecutions [...] Dunn isn’t the first and won’t be the last defendant to press a vindictive or selective prosecution claim against the Trump DOJ. James Comey is expected to file one next week against the charges brought in Virginia by Trump-installed lawyer Lindsey Halligan, who secured an indictment against the former FBI director after the president named him on his revenge list (grand jurors rejected one of the three charges sought by Halligan, who hadn’t prosecuted a case before and brought this one over the objections of career prosecutors). P - Halligan similarly secured an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, whose prosecution Trump also demanded after she brought the civil fraud case against him. James is due to appear in court next week to be arraigned on her fraud indictment, and she may likewise pursue pre-trial motions like the ones Comey has signaled he’ll file. The DOJ obtained an indictment Thursday in Maryland against another Trump critic, John Bolton. https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176835072 ** Newly appointed US attorney will attempt to charge James Comey despite prosecutors finding no probable cause: https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=176746005
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76,199 views Oct 23, 2025 Alina Habba is still fighting to keep her job as the temporary US Attorney for New Jersey, and the courts in New Jersey heard her appeal on Monday. There is a lot riding on her success or failure with this case because it could determine whether all of Trump's political prosecutions get immediately thrown out. The prosecutor in Virginia, Lindsey Halligan, is serving under the same circumstances as Habba - so if Habba can't prosecute then neither can Halligan. Farron Cousins explains what's at stake.
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