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The application court found on Monday in which Alina Habba served illegally as the main prosecutor in New Jersey, brought an explosion to President Donald Trump as he fights to keep the legal offices of the US.
The US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit said in an order that the lower court was correct in favor of Habba, whose legal father served as the president’s defense attorney.
The Trump administration is asking a full panel of 3rd Circuit judges to reconsider the decision, or it could turn to the Supreme Court to intervene.
A three-judge panel of the 3RD heard against Habba’s appointment in October and suspended the Trump Justice Department lawyer and lawyer Pam Bondi again after the first, temporary arrival ended.
Trump nominates Habba as ‘U.S. attorney’ after impeaching him
President Donald Trump sits with Croltiser Christopher M. Kise and Alina Habba during a New York State impeachment hearing on Oct. 17, 2023, in New York City. (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)
Habba is one of the few names on the record in court over allegations that Trump has divided the senate and loopholes in prosecutorial rules.
Habba’s case was mostly in the courtroom, but Lindsey Halligan and Bill Essayli, attorneys general in Virginia and California, respectively, are among those facing high-profile court challenges to their nominations.
The panel that heard Habba’s case was made up of HABBA appointees from former President George W. Bush and one Special Representative appointed by former President Barack Obama.
The judges expressed the opinion of Doj Lawyer Henry Whitaker that Bundi had the authority to fill the vacancy of the New Jersey attorney after the bankruptcy court. Whitaker said the administration was simply taking advantage of the “suffering mechanisms” provided by Congress.
Trump’s US attorneys in blue states are facing legal challenges that could lead to significant prosecutions
Alina Habba speaks during a panel at a political science conference held on February 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
“In this case, the executive branch is allowed to take a series of specific and time-bound measures not to avoid or stop those methods but to be very careful to comply with them,” Whitaker said.
One of the judges said during the oral argument that he viewed Habba’s case as unusual and possibly unreliable.
“Would you agree that the sequence of events here, and, it’s unusual, would you agree that there are serious consequences for the Constitution in your view here, the view of the government, which seems to be, which is the complete lifting, it seems to be, it seems to be, it seems to be lifting it, it seems to be lifting the clause?” the judge asked.
Veteran DC Lawyer Abbe Lowell, known for his involvement in cases impeaching the Trump administration, represented the defendants in Habba’s nomination.
Two sets of defendants facing run-of-the-mill charges brought a challenge to Habba, saying he should not be allowed to prosecute them because he was an ineligible US attorney.
Trump’s nominees narrowed between ‘blue’ and blue blocking
US Attorney General Pam Bondi speaks as President Donald Trump looks on during a press conference in the Oval Office of the Oct. House on Oct. 15, 2025, Washington, DC (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Habba had no way of guaranteeing a Senate confirmation, in part because the New Jersey Senators are Democratic Mentem
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That preamble drew Rimp’s Ires’s Irev Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-IOWA, to stand behind the Blue Slips, which require state senators to be nominated.
Trump has recently been transferred, with his firing of the former US representative Erik Siebert, that received the approval of the democrats who could not be approved for his opinion, putting a stalemate with the upper chamber over his proposed districts in the blue states.
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