Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey

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My guess is that Alina will file an appeal for every case that is decided against the United States on the grounds that her client had incompetent counsel.

Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba sworn in as interim U.S. attorney for New Jersey

Politics Updated on Mar 28, 2025 4:55 PM EDT — Published on Mar 28, 2025 4:43 PM EDT

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She lists no prosecutorial experience in an online biography. {snip} U.S. attorneys often have experience as prosecutors, including at the state or local level. Many, including the acting U.S. attorneys in Brooklyn and Manhattan, have worked in the offices they now lead. … Habba was one of Trump’s most visible defense attorneys, appearing on cable TV news as his “legal spokesperson.” She represented Trump in 2024 in the defamation case involving E. Jean Carroll.

But Habba has had limited federal court experience, practicing mainly in state-level courts. During the Carroll trial, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan chided Habba for botching procedure, misstating the law asking about off-limits topics and objecting after he ruled. … Habba and Trump were fined nearly $1 million in 2023 for filing what a Florida judge called a bogus lawsuit against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Habba has also represented Siggy Flicker, formerly of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey,” in 2021 as she sought to restore her Facebook account, which the reality star claimed had been disabled after she made a post wishing First Lady Melania Trump a happy birthday.

Habba was the plaintiff’s attorney in 2021 a defamation lawsuit against a Portuguese weekly magazine, which was later dismissed.

Associated Press writers Mike Catalini in New Jersey, Aamer Madhani and Will Weissert in Washington and Michael R. Sisak in New York contributed to this report.