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Famed
parking
garage
lawyer
Alina
Habba
spent
her
tenure
as
the
quasi-U.S.
Attorney
for
New
Jersey
stoking
Epstein
file
rumors
and
pushing
political
prosecutions
against
Democrats
inspecting
ICE
facilities.
Now,
mercifully,
that
tenure
should
be
coming
to
a
close.
Habba
sprung
from
her
cage
on
Highway
9
to
assume
the
role
through
an
appointment
by
Pam
Bondi.
Appointments
made
by
the
Attorney
General
to
serve
as
a
U.S.
Attorney
are
limited
to
120
days,
which
for
Habba
will
expire
next
week.
Trump
nominated
his
bumbling
fixer
to
a
full
term
in
the
post,
but
that
nomination
stalled
in
the
Senate
with
New
Jersey’s
senators
opposing
the
pick
and
Senate
Republicans
not
caring
enough
about
Habba
that
they’ve
chosen
to
pretend
they
care
about
this
norm.
That
means
Habba
will
be
out
of
a
job
next
week
unless
the
state’s
federal
judges
decide
to
appoint
her,
and
they
reportedly
have
zilch
interest
in
having
a
cable
news
talking
head
run
the
office,
preferring
instead
to
pick
First
Assistant
U.S.
Attorney
Desiree
Grace
and
former
U.S.
District
Court
Judge
Noel
Lawrence
Hillman.
If
it
goes
to
the
judges,
that
person
would
serve
for
up
to
210
days.
Signs
suggest
Habba
might
have
embraced
her
fate
in
a
staff
meeting
yesterday,
with
the
New
Jersey
Globe
reporting
that
someone
with
direct
knowledge
of
the
meeting
claimed
“Habba
had
said
she
expected
to
depart
next
week.”
That
said,
another
tipster
told
the
Globe
that
this
“interpretation
was
mischaracterized,”
and
Habba
really
said
that
she
didn’t
know
what
would
happen
but
hoped
to
stay.
An
inability
to
put
forward
a
clear,
understandable
plan?
NOT
OUR
ALINA!
If
this
is
the
end
of
Thunder
Road
for
Habba’s
bid
to
run
New
Jersey
justice,
maybe
she
can
head
up
Donald
Trump’s
new
threatened
lawsuit
against
Rupert
Murdoch.
Just
kidding…
they’re
going
to
make
one
of
the
Biglaw
capitulators
do
that
for
free.
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