Yesterday, Alina Habba turned—where else?—to X, the Trump administration’s second-favorite social-media app, to announce her resignation from a job she did not legally hold. She had “decided to step down” as the top prosecutor in New Jersey, she wrote, after an appeals court ruled last week that she had lacked authority to serve in the role since mid-July. “But do not mistake compliance for surrender,” she warned. “You can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl.”Habba’s resignation announcement was as baffling as the legal questions that booted her out of the office. At first, it seemed like the administration was giving up the fight to keep her in the job—until Attorney General Pam Bondi published a companion X post, several minutes later, clarifying that the Justice Department would be appealing the disqualification ruling. (Perhaps you can’t take the girl out… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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