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Appeals court panel appears skeptical of Trump admin's maneuvers to keep Alina Habba in place
The panel of judges seemed to question the administration’s moves during more than an hour of oral arguments.
Appeals court panel appears skeptical of Trump admin’s maneuvers to keep Alina Habba in place - POLITICO apple.news/ArcVmAQZrRAq...
— LOUISE Rose (@louise0202.bsky.social) 2025-10-22T15:00:14.162Z
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/20/alina-habba-us-attorney-case-arguments-00615489
A panel of federal appeals court judges appeared skeptical Monday of President Donald Trump’s use of unconventional methods to install loyalists as top prosecutors without Senate confirmation.
A trio of judges from the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals spent over an hour questioning the multistep process the Trump administration used to designate his former personal attorney Alina Habba the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and keep her there even after district judges sought to replace her......
All three questioned the government’s move, with Smith at one point calling it “a complete circumvention, it seems, of the appointments clause.”
Habba’s is the most advanced of several cases around the country, including in California and Nevada, in which defendants are challenging the authority of U.S. attorneys installed by the Trump administration through unusual tactics meant to quickly put or keep loyalists in place and without Senate confirmation.
The challenges to Habba’s authority came from defense attorneys, including Abbe Lowell, trying to get charges against their clients thrown out.
A trio of judges from the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals spent over an hour questioning the multistep process the Trump administration used to designate his former personal attorney Alina Habba the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and keep her there even after district judges sought to replace her......
All three questioned the government’s move, with Smith at one point calling it “a complete circumvention, it seems, of the appointments clause.”
Habba’s is the most advanced of several cases around the country, including in California and Nevada, in which defendants are challenging the authority of U.S. attorneys installed by the Trump administration through unusual tactics meant to quickly put or keep loyalists in place and without Senate confirmation.
The challenges to Habba’s authority came from defense attorneys, including Abbe Lowell, trying to get charges against their clients thrown out.
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