Trump uses legal bypass to keep people named in blue states

President Donald Trump puts all the judgments to keep his faithful allies in the prosecutor’s main roles in the Blue States, including his former personal lawyer Alina Habba in New Jersey, where a legal battle is now a doubt about who directs the office of the American prosecutor.

Trump tried to get around the Senate’s confirmation process to maintain Habba authority, as well as the authority of his people appointed to California and New York. The appointment of Habba, however, was complicated by a judicial challenge of a criminal accused in his district.

Habba said in a press release at Fox News Digital, it was not imperturbed by development.

“I am convinced that we will win all attempts to thwart the well-established powers of article II of the executive management and the President of the United States,” said Habba.

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US President Donald Trump listens to the presidential advisor of the White House, Alina Habba, made before an oath as an American interim prosecutor for New Jersey at the White House Oval Office on March 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty)

The appointment of Habba seemed to end last week when the federal judges of New Jersey voted to replace it instead of extending its temporary mandate under federal vacancy laws. The judges chose the veteran prosecutor Desiigh Leigh Grace to succeed Habba, who has no proceedings.

But the Trump administration tried to go beyond the judges dismissing Grace and passing to Habba of the interval to “act” American lawyer. This decision had a confusion on who directs the office, according to the lawyer for the criminal defendant Julien Giraud.

Giraud faces accusations of ordinary drugs and firearms in the Habba district, but his lawyer, Thomas Mirigliano, said that the designation and the “irregular” overhaul of Habba, because the American lawyer was illegal and the reason to reject the case of his client.

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Alina Habba, lawyer for former American president Donald Trump, speaks on stage on the fourth day of the National Republican Convention of the Firerv Forum on July 18, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (SOMODEVILLA / GETTY Images)

“Faced with an imminent criminal procedure under the dubious legal authority, Giraud Jr., asks by this the dismissal of the indictment or, alternately, an injunction with the exception of Ms. Habba, or any deputy lawyer of the United States acting under his alleged authority, to exercise other powers of prosecution in this case,” wrote Mirigliano.

Legal procedures in the New Jersey district were also developed due to persistent issues about Habba authority, the New York Times reported on Monday.

A federal judge in Pennsylvania oversees Giraud’s new request because of the conflict of interests of the New Jersey Federal Court in the matter.

To name Habba as an acting American lawyer, Trump also had to withdraw his appointment as a permanent American lawyer. Sense. Cory Booker and Andy Kim, the New Jersey Democratic Senators, had blocked his way to confirmation through the Blue Slip tradition of the Senate. Booker said in a statement that he also thought that Habba illegally reassured the role of main prosecutor in his state.

“This administration may not like the law, but it is not above,” said Booker.

Similar situations have arisen in New York and California, but did not invite the same level of control as Habba at this stage.

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The American lawyer for the California California Bilal Essayli central district, speaks during a press conference with the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem (out of the executive) at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles on June 12, 2025. (Patrick T. Fallon / AFP via Getty Images)

Bill Essayli, the American temporary lawyer for the California central district, was gone from the interval to the American lawyer on Tuesday at the end of his 120 -day mandate. Essayli is a prosecutor aligned by Trump who made the headlines of the national newspapers after carrying a series of very publicized charges against anti-glacial activists who protested in Los Angeles last month, but criticisms observed that his office has since moved to reject some of these cases or reduce accusations.

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The chief trial of the Essayli district, Dolly Gee, appointed by Obama, refused to take steps to permanently approve Essayli after his 120 -day temporary period. The legal maneuvers of the Trump administration to keep him in his work positioned him to serve as the main prosecutor of the district for at least 210 additional days, the mandate designated for an acting American lawyer.

In the North New York district, John Sarcone also went from the interval to the acting American lawyer.

Matt Finn contributed to this report.