President Donald Trump’s attempt to ensure that his election remains in charge of the United States Prosecutor’s Office in New Jersey, took a new turn on Thursday.
A day before Alina Haba’s mandate, as the United States interim prosecutor for the New Jersey district, expired, the White House withdrew its nomination for the position.
Archive: Alina Haba speaks after jurying as the United States Interim Attorney for New Jersey, at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on March 28, 2025.
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He had then announced on social networks that he is now the United States prosecutor, apparently restarting the clock in what is generally a temporary term of 120 days.
“I do not go to pressure. I do not respond to politics. This is a struggle for justice. And I am all inside,” he wrote on social networks.
The unorthodox legal maneuver seems to finish a dead point that began when federal judges in New Jersey selected Desiree Leigh Grace, an experienced federal prosecutor, about Haba, the former personal lawyer and election of the president to direct the office.
The Department of Justice quickly declared that he shot Grace, making it not clear who would take care of the office.
In a publication on social networks, Grace declared that he would still be willing to direct the office “in accordance with the law.”
The Trump administration movement to extract the Haba nomination and then install it in a capacity for action seems to take advantage of a section of the Federal Vacancies Reform, which allows an interim officer to serve in a position for no more than 210 days if no one is nominated for the position.
-ABC News’ Peter Charalambous and Alexander Mallin
