Trump fights to save Alina Habba in latest showdown with the courts - IN FOCUS: New Jersey judges picked their own nominee to replace Trump’s personal attorney as the state’s top prosecutor. Then Pam Bondi fired her,

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump 's former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, said on Thursday that she would seek to remain as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey despite a judicial decision this week not to extend her appointment. Habba's statement marked the latest challenge by the Trump administration to oversight by federal courts.

Habba’s disastrous tenure as a federal prosecutor appeared to be over — until Donald Trump and Pam Bondi came up with a scheme to keep her in place.

The Justice Department rejected a federal court’s authority to name a new U.S. attorney to New Jersey to replace Alina Habba.

Alina Habba on January 26, 2024, in New York City. CNN Senior Legal Analyst Elie Honig has criticized a motion filed by Habba in Donald Trump’s defamation case.

As Trump's former defense attorney gives up her U.S. attorney post, it's worth remembering that she never should've been appointed in the first place.

The state's district judges voted to replace Alina Habba with her top assistant, who was ousted by the Justice Department hours later.

Former President Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba talks to the media outside the New York State Supreme Court on December 07, 2023 in New York City. Legal observers have criticized her courtroom ...