Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Ras Baraka sued his state's top prosecutor, Alina Habba , on Tuesday over his arrest last month at an immigration detention center in his city.

Baraka's federal lawsuit alleges that Habba falsely arrested, maliciously prosecuted and defamed the Democratic mayor.

Habba is President Donald Trump 's former personal defense lawyer, and his pick for interim U.S. attorney for the Garden State.

The civil suit in U.S. District Court in New Jersey accused Habba of "acting for political purposes and fulfilling her stated goal of 'turning New Jersey red' by instigating and/or authorizing the false arrest of Mayor Baraka, a Democrat."

The suit comes just over two weeks after Habba said her office would drop its case against Baraka "for the sake of moving for

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