Federal Judge Matthew Brann has ruled that there is no legal authority allowing former parking lot attorney Alina Habba to serve as the US Attorney for New Jersey.
What? You mean that the Trump Administration is breaking the law? Again?
Well, knock me over with a 1953 baby blue Chrysler Imperial:
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Alina Habba had been serving as New Jersey’s U.S. attorney without legal authority for more than a month, thrusting the state’s already paralyzed federal court system deeper into disarray and potentially placing limits on the president’s power to choose his own top federal prosecutors.
“Faced with the question of whether Ms. Habba is lawfully performing the functions and duties of the office of the United States attorney for the District of New Jersey, I conclude that she is not,” the judge, Matthew W. Brann of the Middle District of Pennsylvania, wrote.
“Because she is not currently qualified to exercise the functions and duties of the office in an acting capacity,” he added, “she must be disqualified from participating in any ongoing cases.”
But the judge delayed the practical effect of his own decision, including an order disqualifying Ms. Habba from participating in ongoing cases. The pause will allow the government to fight on Ms. Habba’s behalf in a federal appeals court.
It should be noted here that Habba should not be a lawyer, because she was representing Donald Trump, and misrepresented herself to someone suing him over sexual harassment allegations at Mar-a-Lago in order to tank their case. (She got them to ditch their lawyer and sign a completely unfair settlement)
She should have been disbarred for that.
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