{"id":127433,"date":"2025-07-20T22:02:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/20\/alina-habba-to-let-the-screen-door-hit-her-on-her-way-out-of-u-s-attorney-job-or-maybe-not\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T22:02:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T06:02:58","slug":"alina-habba-to-let-the-screen-door-hit-her-on-her-way-out-of-u-s-attorney-job-or-maybe-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/20\/alina-habba-to-let-the-screen-door-hit-her-on-her-way-out-of-u-s-attorney-job-or-maybe-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Alina Habba To Let The Screen Door Hit Her On Her Way Out Of U.S. Attorney Job (OR MAYBE NOT!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famed parking garage lawyer Alina Habba spent her tenure as the quasi-U.S. Attorney for New Jersey stoking Epstein file rumors<\/a> and pushing political prosecutions against Democrats inspecting ICE facilities<\/a>. Now, mercifully, that tenure should be coming to a close.<\/p>\n

Habba sprung from her cage on Highway 9 to assume the role through an appointment by Pam Bondi. Appointments made by the Attorney General to serve as a U.S. Attorney are limited to 120 days, which for Habba will expire next week. Trump nominated his bumbling fixer to a full term in the post, but that nomination stalled in the Senate with New Jersey\u2019s senators opposing the pick and Senate Republicans not caring enough about Habba that they\u2019ve chosen to pretend they care about this norm. <\/p>\n

That means Habba will be out of a job next week unless the state\u2019s federal judges decide to appoint her, and they reportedly have zilch interest in having a cable news talking head run the office, preferring instead to pick First Assistant U.S. Attorney Desiree Grace and former U.S. District Court Judge Noel Lawrence Hillman<\/a>. If it goes to the judges, that person would serve for up to 210 days.<\/p>\n

Signs suggest Habba might have embraced her fate in a staff meeting yesterday, with the New Jersey Globe reporting that someone with direct knowledge of the meeting claimed \u201cHabba had said she expected to depart next week.\u201d That said, another tipster told the Globe that this \u201cinterpretation was mischaracterized,\u201d and Habba really said that she didn\u2019t know what would happen but hoped to stay.<\/p>\n

An inability to put forward a clear, understandable plan? NOT OUR ALINA! <\/p>\n

If this is the end of Thunder Road for Habba\u2019s bid to run New Jersey justice, maybe she can head up Donald Trump\u2019s new threatened lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just kidding\u2026 they\u2019re going to make one of the Biglaw capitulators<\/a> do that for free.<\/p>\n

\n

\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The post Alina Habba To Let The Screen Door Hit Her On Her Way Out Of U.S. Attorney Job (OR MAYBE NOT!)<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Famed parking garage lawyer Alina Habba spent her tenure as the quasi-U.S. Attorney for New Jersey stoking Epstein file rumors<\/a> and pushing political prosecutions against Democrats inspecting ICE facilities<\/a>. Now, mercifully, that tenure should be coming to a close.<\/p>\n

Habba sprung from her cage on Highway 9 to assume the role through an appointment by Pam Bondi. Appointments made by the Attorney General to serve as a U.S. Attorney are limited to 120 days, which for Habba will expire next week. Trump nominated his bumbling fixer to a full term in the post, but that nomination stalled in the Senate with New Jersey\u2019s senators opposing the pick and Senate Republicans not caring enough about Habba that they\u2019ve chosen to pretend they care about this norm. <\/p>\n

That means Habba will be out of a job next week unless the state\u2019s federal judges decide to appoint her, and they reportedly have zilch interest in having a cable news talking head run the office, preferring instead to pick First Assistant U.S. Attorney Desiree Grace and former U.S. District Court Judge Noel Lawrence Hillman<\/a>. If it goes to the judges, that person would serve for up to 210 days.<\/p>\n

Signs suggest Habba might have embraced her fate in a staff meeting yesterday, with the New Jersey Globe reporting that someone with direct knowledge of the meeting claimed \u201cHabba had said she expected to depart next week.\u201d That said, another tipster told the Globe that this \u201cinterpretation was mischaracterized,\u201d and Habba really said that she didn\u2019t know what would happen but hoped to stay.<\/p>\n

An inability to put forward a clear, understandable plan? NOT OUR ALINA! <\/p>\n

If this is the end of Thunder Road for Habba\u2019s bid to run New Jersey justice, maybe she can head up Donald Trump\u2019s new threatened lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just kidding\u2026 they\u2019re going to make one of the Biglaw capitulators<\/a> do that for free.<\/p>\n

\n

\"Headshot\"Joe Patrice<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. Feel free to\u00a0email<\/a> any tips, questions, or comments. Follow him on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0or Bluesky<\/a> if you\u2019re interested in law, politics, and a healthy dose of college sports news. Joe also serves as a Managing Director at RPN Executive Search<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Famed parking garage lawyer Alina Habba spent her tenure as the quasi-U.S. Attorney for New Jersey stoking Epstein file rumors and pushing political prosecutions against Democrats inspecting ICE facilities. Now, mercifully, that tenure should be coming to a close. Habba sprung from her cage on Highway 9 to assume the role through an appointment by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":127194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Headshot-300x200-SrWHZJ.jpeg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}