Trump Lawyer is Toast at her Final Meeting of Career?!! - Meidas Touch

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Jul 19, 2025 Legal AF Podcast
17 US Federal Judges in NJ are poised to meet this week and vote to rebuke Trump by refusing to extend the 120-day interim tenure of his pick for US Attorney Alina Habba. But does that mean that Habba is toast for a permanent appointment through the Senate? Would Trump try to breach Senate protocol and shove her candidacy through without the support of NJ Senators Booker or Kim? Popok breaks it all down in his latest hot take.

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Alina Habba is expected to leave her interim US Attorney post this Tuesday. While that is good, Michael Popok expresses concern that she might be appointed to a role where she can do even more damage. He cite the example of Ed Martin.

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1. Alina Habba To Let The Screen Door Hit Her On Her Way Out Of U.S. Attorney Job (OR MAYBE NOT!)

Habba is a parking garage attorney. She should not be a US attorney.

Alina Habba To Let The Screen Door Hit Her On Her Way Out Of U.S. Attorney Job (OR MAYBE NOT!)

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Imagine the joy, of the supermarket tabloids, if she ever worked again as a parking garage lawyer Chuckle Chuckle Chuckle

— Greg T (@voterswoke.org) 2025-07-19T05:46:40.285Z

https://abovethelaw.com/2025/07/alina-habba-to-let-the-screen-door-hit-her-on-her-way-out-of-u-s-attorney-job-or-maybe-not/

Famed parking garage lawyer Alina Habba spent her tenure as the quasi-U.S. Attorney for New Jersey stoking Epstein file rumors (Opens in a new window)and pushing political prosecutions against Democrats inspecting ICE facilities (Opens in a new window). 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 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’s senators opposing the pick and Senate Republicans not caring enough about Habba that they’ve chosen to pretend they care about this norm.

That means Habba will be out of a job next week unless the state’s 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 (Opens in a new window). If it goes to the judges, that person would serve for up to 210 days.

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 “Habba had said she expected to depart next week.” That said, another tipster told the Globe that this “interpretation was mischaracterized,” and Habba really said that she didn’t know what would happen but hoped to stay.