From ABC News: After a three-month battle over the legality of her appointment, Alina Habba has resigned from her position as the Acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
She announced her resignation as U.S. attorney in a social media post on Monday. She will remain serving as “Senior Adviser to the Attorney General for U.S. Attorneys.”
The resignation comes after a protracted legal fight about whether she could serve in the U.S. attorney role without Senate confirmation.
Habba could not go through the Senate confirmation process, primarily because New Jersey’s Democratic senators, Cory Booker and Andy Kim, refused to approve of her through the Senate’s blue slip tradition. The ‘blue slip’ process requires home state senators to approve of U.S. attorney and district judge nominees.
In a statement posted on X Monday afternoon, Habba wrote:
For the past five years, I’ve fought for justice on behalf of the American people, and in my tenure under our great Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanch, we made New Jersey safer. Camden had its first murder-free summer in 50 years. We drove down crime, took violent offenders off the streets, caught terrorists, and put away child predators.
While I was focused on delivering real results, judges in my state took advantage of a flawed blue slip tradition and became weapons for the politicized left. For months, these judges stopped conducting trials and entering sentences, leaving violent criminals on the streets. They joined New Jersey senators, who care more about fighting President Trump than teh well being of residents which they serve.
For four years, I fought against lawfare aimed at President Trump and against politics infecting our justice system. What these obstructionists misunderstood is that my loyalty is not to politics, a title, or a ZIP code. It is to this great country.
As a result of the Third Circuit’s ruling, and to protect the stability and integrity of the office which I love, I have decided to step down in my role as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. But do not mistake compliance for surrender. This decision will not weaken the Justice Department and it will not weaken me.
My fight will now stretch across the country. As we wait for further review of the court’s ruling, I will continue to serve the Department of Justice as the Senior Advisor to the Attorney General for U.S. Attorneys.
Make no mistake, you can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl.
— Alina Habba (@AlinaHabba) December 8, 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi then posted the following announcement:
— Attorney General Pamela Bondi (@AGPamBondi) December 8, 2025
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