Donald Trump’s former lawyer Alina Habba announced on social media she is resigning as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey.
Habba’s resignation came after district and appellate court rulings found that she was unlawfully serving in the role, a powerful post charged with enforcing federal criminal and civil law.
The Trump administration had been maneuvering to keep Habba in place even though her interim appointment expired and she had not received Senate confirmation as legally required.
Habba’s statement on Monday said “do not mistake compliance for surrender” and that she would serve as a senior adviser for US attorneys to the Trump administration’s attorney general, Pam Bondi.
“Make no mistake, you can take the girl out of New Jersey, but you cannot take New Jersey out of the girl,” said the statement from Habba, who had been appointed to her US attorney role by Trump nine months earlier.
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