Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Alina Habba, resigned on Monday as the top federal prosecutor of New Jersey following a contentious ruling by an appeals court that said she was serving her post unlawfully. The Third Circuit Court, in a strongly-worded statement, Habba framed her departure as an act of “compliance, not surrender," insisting the decision would neither weaken her resolve nor the Justice Department.

pic.twitter.com/wIhEvXXZoh — Alina Habba (@AlinaHabba) December 8, 2025

Reflecting on her five-year tenure, Habba highlighted what she described as unprecedented successes under former Attorney General Pam Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, including New Jersey’s first murder-free summer in Camden in half a century, reductions in violent crime, and efforts t

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