Trump adviser Alina Habba named interim U.S. lawyer for NJ – NBC New York
President Donald Trump has named longtime adviser and private lawyer Alina Habba to be the interim U.S. Lawyer for the District of New Jersey.
Habba at present works within the White Home as a counselor to the president.
“It’s with nice pleasure that I’m saying Alina Habba, Esq., who’s at present serving as Counselor to the President, and has represented me for a very long time, shall be our interim U.S. Lawyer for the District of New Jersey, her Residence State, efficient instantly!,” President Trump stated in a put up on Reality Social. “Alina will lead with the identical diligence and conviction that has outlined her profession, and she’s going to combat tirelessly to safe a Authorized System that’s each ‘Honest and Simply’ for the fantastic folks of New Jersey.”
WASHINGTON, DC – MARCH 24: Alina Habba, newly appointed interim U.S. Lawyer for District of New Jersey, speaks to reporters exterior the White Home on March 24, 2025, in Washington DC. U.S. President Donald Trump appointed Habba, who at present serves as Counselor to the President, to exchange present lawyer John Giordano who was nominated function Ambassador to Namibia. (Picture by Win McNamee/Getty Pictures)
Habba will change John Giordano, who will change into U.S. Ambassador to Namibia, Trump introduced.
She was a fixture by the president’s facet at a number of courtroom circumstances in New York Metropolis, together with at New York Lawyer Normal Tish James’ civil fraud trial in opposition to Trump and within the president’s sexual abuse and defamation circumstances introduced by E. Jean Carroll.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 11: Former U.S. President Donald Trump and his legal professionals Christopher Kise and Alina Habba attend the closing arguments within the Trump Group civil fraud trial at New York State Supreme Courtroom on January 11, 2024 in New York Metropolis. Trump will not make his personal closing arguments after his legal professionals objected to Choose Arthur Engoron’s insistence that Trump keep inside the bounds of “related, materials details which might be in proof” of the case. Prosecutors allege that Trump and his two sons Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump conspired to inflate his internet price on monetary statements supplied to banks and insurers to safe loans. New York Lawyer Normal Letitia James has sued looking for $370 million in damages. (Picture by Shannon Stapleton-Pool/Getty Pictures)
