{"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’s Office"},"content":{"rendered":"

“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’t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants,” Judge Matthew Brann wrote.<\/p>\n

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“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’t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants,” Judge Matthew Brann wrote.<\/p>\n

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“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’t like that he cannot simply appoint whomever he wants,” Judge Matthew Brann wrote. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “With all these options remaining, […]<\/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":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/legal-news-JHPqvE.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_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}]}}