Trump’s Lawyer Loses Job After Court Declares She Was Playing Attorney Without a License

KEY POINTS

•Alina Habba, Trump’s former personal lawyer, resigned Monday as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey after an appeals court disqualified her last week.
•Attorney General Pam Bondi announced the Justice Department plans to seek further review and expressed confidence in reversing the ruling.
•Habba said she will remain as Bondi’s senior adviser, vowing that the disqualification will not weaken either her or the Justice Department.

In a plot twist straight out of legal soap opera season 47, Alina Habba, erstwhile Trump personal lawyer and brief New Jersey U.S. Attorney, was unceremoniously disqualified last week by an appeals court who decided she’d been moonlighting unlawfully. Officially stepping down Monday, Habba didn’t run off crying; instead, she took up a senior adviser role under Attorney General Pam Bondi — because what’s a little illegal juggling act without a fallback plan? Bondi, shaking the virtual pom-poms on a mid-September X social media shoutout, insists the Justice Department is 'confident' the ban will be overturned. Meanwhile, Habba’s sage counsel on X confidently cautions ‘Do not mistake compliance for surrender’ — neat line for the new resume. White House kept mum, Justice Dept avoided comment, and New Jersey now faces the daunting question: who’s next to play the smoky understudy in the U.S. attorney drama? The story, updated for your binge-reading pleasure, proves government soap never skips a commercial break.

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Trying to serve as a U.S. attorney without the legal right is the 2025 version of parking in a handicap spot—it never ends well, but Alina Habba’s still not walking away quietly.

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