Alina Habba resigned Monday as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey after a federal appeals court ruled she had been serving unlawfully, ending months of uncertainty inside one of the Trump administration’s most legally vulnerable U.S. attorneys’ offices.

Habba, formerly one of President Donald Trump’s personal lawyers and a fierce public defender of the president, said she stepped aside to protect “the stability and integrity of the office which I love,” though she insisted her exit should not be seen as a retreat. “Do not mistake compliance for surrender,” she wrote on X.

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