After courts forced out Trump's controversial appointee, the Justice Department's unusual response has raised new questions.

Ms. Habba resigned on Monday, after a federal appeals court last week found she had been serving as U.S. attorney unlawfully.

The ruling by a panel of the Third United States Appeals Court that the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Alina Habba, was unlawfully appointed is another setback for President Trump’s Department ...

The departure of the president’s ally in the Garden State means that a new prosecutor will assume control of the prosecution.

Habba, who represented Trump during a blockbuster fraud case in New York and against defamation and sexual abuse claims from ...

President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, is disqualified from serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor despite his administration’s maneuvers to keep her in the role, an ...

A federal appeals court this month upheld Habba's disqualification as US attorney, despite Trump's attacks on judges.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Trump administration’s maneuvers to keep the president’s former lawyer Alina Habba in place as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor were illegal and she is disqualified, a ...