Posted on 07/24/2025 8:12:13 PM PDT by george76
The conservative legal group, Article III Project, is filing a judicial complaint against a federal judiciary panel of mostly Democrat-appointed judges after they decided not to extend Alina Habba’s term as President Trump’s interim New Jersey US attorney.
“House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries corruptly gave 17 New Jersey U.S. district judges their marching orders: ‘Fire New Jersey U.S. Attorney @AlinaHabba,’ “wrote Article III Project president Mike Davis on X following the panel’s decision. “And these New Jersey activist judges—15 of whom were appointed by Obama and Biden—saluted,” Davis continued. “This violated Canons 2, 3, and 5 of the Code of Conduct for United States Judges. @Article3Project will file a judicial misconduct complaint.”
President Donald Trump appointed Habba to the position on March 24 but her confirmation has been held up by Senate Democrats. Interim US attorneys are only allowed to serve for 120 days without a Senate confirmation but their term can be extended if the district court in their jurisdiction grants them an extension.
The 17 New Jersey district judges held a meeting Monday morning to decide whether to extend her position, which was set to expire at 11:59 p.m. Friday.
Chief US District Judge Renée Marie Bumb announced in a signed order Tuesday that the panel had opted against extending Habba’s term and appointed career prosecutor Desiree Leigh Grace to take over for her, effective immediately.
Later Tuesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi stepped in and promptly removed Grace from the position.
“US Atty Habba has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant,” Bondi said in a statement posted on X at 4:18 pm.
“Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just been removed,” Bondi continued. “This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges — especially when they threaten the President’s core Article II powers.”
Grace was reportedly promoted to first assistant under Habba shortly after she took office.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche released a statement on X earlier Tuesday, saying: “The district court judges in NJ are trying to force out @USAttyHabba before her term expires at 11:59 p.m. Friday.”
“Their rush reveals what this was always about: a left-wing agenda, not the rule of law,” Blanche added. “When judges act like activists, they undermine confidence in our justice system. Alina is President Trump’s choice to lead—and no partisan bench can override that.”
In cases where an appointment gets stalled in the Senate, federal law gives District judges the power to extend a nominee’s interim term until the vacancy is filled.
John Sarcone, Trump’s pick to lead a US attorney’s office based in Albany, was “rebuffed by a similar board of judges,” according to the New York Post, but the Trump administration “apparently found a workaround when Attorney General Pam Bondi made him a special assistant US attorney.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) had previously indicated he would place a hold on Sarcone or any other Trump nominees for positions in the Empire State.
“I became ‘acting’ US attorney for an indefinite term,” Sarcone explained to the New York Law Journal, claiming he had “all the powers of the US attorney” as the top prosecutor in the Northern District of New York.
It’s unclear if the DOJ will pursue a similar path with Habba, who was blocked from beginning the traditional vetting process in the Senate.
New Jersey’s Democratic senators — Cory Booker and Andy Kim — both already opposed Habba’s confirmation, withholding their so-called “blue slips” to block the Judiciary Committee from considering Trump’s onetime personal attorney.
Without a blue slip, Habba’s only choice was to have her term extended by the New Jersey judges.
About an hour before Bondi’s statement, White House spokesman Harrison Fields said that the president had “full confidence in Alina Habba, whose work as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey has made the Garden State and the nation safer.”
He added that the administration was looking forward to Ms. Habba’s confirmation in the U.S. Senate.
Davis said Jeffries targeted Habba because she had “brought an indictment against a low-life Democrat House member who allegedly assaulted federal immigration officers.”
Rep. Jeffries on Friday called for the judges to oust Habba from her position, claiming she had “maliciously indicted” Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ). A federal grand jury on June 10 returned a three-count indictment charging McIver with “forcibly impeding and interfering with federal law enforcement officers” during an altercation at an immigration facility in Newark back in May.
“Habba is a woefully unqualified political hack who must go,” Jeffries wrote in his July 18 post on X. “She must be rejected by the Federal District Court Judges who are considering whether to retain her.”
The Article III Project filed a House Ethics complaint against the Democrat for “improperly inserting himself into a criminal proceeding,” and for trying to “strong arm” federal judges into taking a “purely political” action.
“This is clear corruption by House Democrat Leader Hakeem Jeffries” Davis said.
Jeffries posted a video on social media Tuesday responding to the Article III Project’s ethics complaint against him.
The House minority leader reiterated his slanders against Habba, calling her “woefully unqualified,” a “political hack,” and a “total disgrace.” He then dismissed the ethics complaint as a “frivolous” waste of his time.
“I don’t give a damn about the so-called ethics complaint. It means nothing to me,” Jeffries said. “It is frivolous. It was filed by pettyfoggers who perhaps themselves should be disbarred.”
He added, “we will not be intimidated. Get lost.”
Davis fired back at Jeffries on X, saying: “Dear @hakeemjeffries: You sound rattled. If @Article3Project’s ethics complaint against you ‘means nothing to me,’ why are you talking about it? (Maybe we’re over the target?)”
Now, remove them from the bench.
Oh, yeah! Hit these leftists hard, hit ‘em again and don’t let them get back up.
Fight back. Kick them in the balls with their own shoes. Leadership. From the top.
As a citizen, I say:
“I can’t spare this man; he fights.”
And he’s inspiring a lot of people to stand up and fight with him. Like Mike Davis, Charlie Kirk and many more.
:)
Fight, fight, fight!
I would love to see a GO FUND ME account for 10 or so LEGAL MAGA Hispanics with a lot of tattoos that will all go and visit the neighborhoods of certain lib politicians and judges.
The results would be amazing. -A great investment.
I can’t believe we’re fighting back. I’ve waited 30 years for this.
Leadership.
During the fight on Tarawa in 1943, Colonel David Shoup was awarded the Medal of Honor after being wounded severely and was in shock from a close explosion, and kept rallying the Marines. At one point, one of the junior officers expressed frustration because he couldn’t get any men to go with him to attack the enemy, they were all hunkered down. Shoup said something like: “It is simple. You stand up and say “follow me”, and if you only get ten men, those are the ten men you go with and they have to be good enough.”
Another Marine was curled up and hiding under some wreckage, and Col. Shoup began kicking him to get him out from under the wreckage. When he had the man’s attention, he said “Do you have a mother?” When the blinking Marine said yes, Shoup said “If your mother saw you like this, would she be proud of you?”
The Marine admitted she probably wouldn’t, and he got up and began fighting again.
It is leadership.
Trump isn’t perfect, but he is providing leadership. He can’t get douchebags like Collins and Murkowski to go along, but he is kicking other people to get up and get into the fight.
And he is having an effect.
Dime Store Obama is on the warpath.
“”“I don’t give a damn about the so-called ethics complaint. It means nothing to me,” Jeffries said. “It is frivolous. It was filed by pettyfoggers who perhaps themselves should be disbarred.”
He added, “we will not be intimidated. Get lost.”””
As usual, the hypocrisy from the left is stunning. They won’t be intimidated, even while intimidating Habba by getting rid of her, because she dares to prosecute Democrat law-breakers and because orange man bad.
I long for the day when idiots like Jeffries and his ilk are the ones that “get lost”... never to be found or heard from again.
Massie is posting that house is going to block recess appointments by the reconvening move.
If Johnson does this he needs to be held accountable PR wise.
Is they any good reason for Senate democrats to hold up their confirmation?
“Is they any good reason for Senate democrats to hold up their confirmation?”
Senate Republicans still let local Democrat Senators block nominations.
And that’s “Mr. Pettyfogger” to you, Jeffries.
How about all the judges ignoring the sc ruling, and making rules banning pres Trump from doing his job legally?
Field report.
I just went to the article 3 site to participate on the action links
Each time my T-Mobile/,Google equiped cell phone TRIED to load the page, then opened a blank page.
Someone, or something, looking at you tmobil,Google, ai, stopped the page and links from working.
Spit.
I am aware of other bizarre conduct from this judge involving her reassigning a judge after the clerk’s office claims to have lost a motion for his recusal and other papers. The judge did that to allow the judge to save face. She should be removed from the bench.
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