Former Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba is all but certain to be headed for the door next week leaving behind portraits of herself on the walls and disgruntled staffers after her brief stint as a U.S. attorney comes to an end.According to a report from the New York Times, her appointment as the U.S...

Former Donald Trump attorney Alina Habba is all but certain to be headed for the door next week leaving behind portraits of herself on the walls and disgruntled staffers after her brief stint as a U.S. attorney comes to an end.

According to a report from the New York Times, her appointment as the U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey on an interim basis began in “chaos” and is now drawing to a close, with employees looking forward to her departure while also considering leaving too.

Habba’s appointment as a the U.S. attorney was derailed by both of New Jersey’s Democratic Senators Cory Booker and Andy Kim, limiting her to a 120-day term in office.

  • ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

    This is great news since she is unqualified even by Trump-staff-fingerpainting-on-the-Constitution standards, but:

    Anyone know how/why Booker can limit her term, unless extended by the district courts? The OP article doesn’t explain, and links to a paywalled NYT article.

    • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 day ago

      Historically, the Senate has a tradition where the Senators from the state submit a “blue slip” with their opinions on it. If they don’t submit one, it can delay a hearing or kill the nomination. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_slip_(U.S._Senate)

      Whether it matters changes all the time — see the history part of the Wikipedia article’s History section — but other Senators want theirs respected so sometimes it does. If nothing else, it can give a Senator who doesn’t want the nominee cover from bucking party leadership.

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    81·
    23 hours ago

    It makes sense for Trump to encourage high turnover and drum up extra business for whoever paints the official portraits. One of his favorite historical figures was a painter.

  • Nightwingdragon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    They should tell her to take the pictures with her when she cleans out her desk, and let her watch them throw them in the dumpster if she refuses to.