{"id":145697,"date":"2026-03-09T14:58:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/09\/judge-rejects-leadership-plan-for-new-jersey-us-attorneys-office\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T14:58:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T22:58:42","slug":"judge-rejects-leadership-plan-for-new-jersey-us-attorneys-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/03\/09\/judge-rejects-leadership-plan-for-new-jersey-us-attorneys-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Rejects Leadership Plan for New Jersey US Attorney&#8217;s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this district potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure? The government tells us: the president doesn&#8217;t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants,&#8221; Judge Matthew Brann wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/i\/949902245\/0\/law\/legal-news\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><a title=\"Add to FaceBook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/2\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fbshare20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Like on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/28\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fblike20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Pin it!\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/29\/949902245\/law\/legal-news,https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-alm.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F36%2F70%2F9db68cda41ff8f97a047bc59cf41%2Flamparello-fox-fontecchio-jpg767x505-2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/pinterest20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Stumble This\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/12\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/stumble20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Post to X.com\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/24\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Subscribe by RSS\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/20\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/rss20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this district potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure? The government tells us: the president doesn&#8217;t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants,&#8221; Judge Matthew Brann wrote.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/~\/i\/949902245\/0\/law\/legal-news\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<div><a title=\"Add to FaceBook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/2\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fbshare20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Like on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/28\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/fblike20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Pin it!\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/29\/949902245\/law\/legal-news,https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-alm.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2F36%2F70%2F9db68cda41ff8f97a047bc59cf41%2Flamparello-fox-fontecchio-jpg767x505-2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/pinterest20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Stumble This\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/12\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/stumble20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Post to X.com\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/24\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0<a title=\"Subscribe by RSS\" href=\"https:\/\/feeds.feedblitz.com\/_\/20\/949902245\/law\/legal-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.feedblitz.com\/i\/rss20.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With all these options remaining, why does the fate of thousands of criminal prosecutions in this district potentially rest on the legitimacy of an unprecedented and byzantine leadership structure? The government tells us: the president doesn&#8217;t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants,&#8221; Judge Matthew Brann wrote. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8220;With all these options remaining, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":145698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145697","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=145697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}