{"id":134978,"date":"2025-08-21T20:09:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134978"},"modified":"2025-08-21T20:09:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T20:09:16","slug":"trump-lawyer-alina-habba-unlawfully-appointed-as-us-attorney-judge-rulesunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=134978","title":{"rendered":"Trump lawyer Alina Habba unlawfully appointed as US attorney, judge rulesUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA judge on Thursday ruled that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to US President Donald Trump, was unlawfully appointed as the acting US Attorney for New Jersey and was therefore ineligible to take part in any ongoing cases.<br \/>\nThe ruling is a setback for Trump\u2019s Justice Department, which manoeuvred to keep Habba in her post and circumvent a judicial decision not to extend her 120-day interim tenure.<br \/>\n\u201cFaced with the question of whether Ms Habba is lawfully performing the functions and duties of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3322717\/trump-lawyer-alina-habba-unlawfully-appointed-us-attorney-new-jersey-judge-rules?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA judge on Thursday ruled that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to US President Donald Trump, was unlawfully appointed as&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}