The DOJ Is Working Overtime to Protect One of Trump’s Most Incompetent Lawyers

The Department of Justice is currently turning itself inside out to defend one of the president’s more incompetent first-term parking-lot lawyers whom the administration had given an interim appointment to the federal bench in New Jersey because fck you, Libs, that’s why. If this makes no sense to you, let me congratulate you for coming out of your ten-year coma. From NBC:

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday fired a federal prosecutor whom New Jersey’s federal judges had named to replace the state’s interim U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, a close ally of President Donald Trump. Bondi said on X that Habba—previously Trump’s personal lawyer—had been “doing a great job making NJ safe again” but that “politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position.”

In merciful brief, the administration plugged in Habba as the interim U.S. attorney in New Jersey. The last time Habba had surfaced in public was when she fronted for the president in a ludicrous lawsuit that charged Hillary Clinton and every other Democratic politician back to Grover Cleveland with racketeering for engineering the “Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.” This action was so successful that the presiding judge sanctioned Habba and her client for even bringing it before the court. He said:

“These were political grievances masquerading as legal claims. This cannot be attributed to incompetent lawyering. It was a deliberate use of the judicial system to pursue a political agenda.”

Undaunted, Habba refiled the suit, this time incorporating “evidence” turned up by pet Trump special counsel John Durham. All this proved was that Habba had an unerring aim for Judge Donald Middlebrooks’s last nerve.

“Even if the Durham Report uncovered the sort of vast conspiracy alleged by Plaintiff (it plainly did not), it would not change the many legal conclusions I made in the Order dismissing Plaintiff’s lawsuit and whatever the Durham Report can be said to have uncovered, for purposes of this case, it does not change my findings that Movants acted in bad faith in bringing this lawsuit and that this case exemplifies Mr. Trump’s history of abusing the judicial process. Therefore, for the reasons set forth below, Plaintiff and his lawyers’ Motion for Indicative Ruling Based Upon New Evidence is denied.”

She was then sanctioned for nearly $1 million. This alone should have been enough to disqualify Habba from appearing in traffic court, let alone becoming a U.S. attorney, even on an interim basis. The results were predictable. From The New York Times:

Her tenure has also shattered morale inside the U.S. attorney’s office and left many prosecutors looking for a way out, according to sixteen close observers of the office who were interviewed for this article and spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution. Ms. Habba boasted, upon taking office, of her direct line to the White House, according to people with knowledge of her remarks, even as she has insisted that she is “not political.” Prosecutors have chafed at her availability to defense lawyers. She disbanded the office’s Civil Rights Division and killed the office’s longest-running prosecution just days before it was scheduled to go to trial. Three framed pictures of herself now hang in a conference room named for a legendary New Jersey crime fighter, Frederick B. Lacey.

So, on Tuesday, when Habba’s tenure as interim U.S. attorney ran out, and it was up to the judges of New Jersey’s federal district courts whether or not Habba’s appointment should be made permanent, the judges briefly threw up in their mouths (speculation), and announced, “Oh, hell-fck, no.” (Paraphrase.) Instead, they elevated federal prosecutor Desiree Leigh Grace to the position. At which point, Attorney General Pam Bondi stepped in and fired Grace:

“Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges—especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.”

This is, of course, all my bollocks. There was a system in place, the constitutionality of which never has been questioned, and it worked just the way it was supposed to work. The president doesn’t have “core Article II powers” to appoint anyone he wants to any job whenever he wants to do so. Pam Bondi doesn’t know this because Pam Bondi is as big a hack as Alina Habba is, and game recognize game.