Category: Trump Administration / Legal Apparatus Role: Senior Adviser to the Attorney General for U.S. Attorneys (December 2025–present); former acting / interim U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey (March–December 2025; service ruled unlawful by the Third Circuit); former Counselor to the President (January–March 2025); former personal attorney to Donald Trump (2021–2025) Priority: P1

Basis for Inclusion

Subject Classification: Public Official — sitting Senior Adviser to the Attorney General; former acting U.S. Attorney (NJ); former Counselor to the President.

Anchor(s) Met: Anchor E — used a documented official federal capacity (Counselor to the President, then acting U.S. Attorney, then Senior Adviser to the Attorney General) to advance conduct at issue. Federal prosecutorial actions are the specific documented conduct evaluated below.

What Is NOT the Basis for Inclusion: Political speech, media commentary, party affiliation, personal loyalty to the President, or her prior private-practice civil-litigation record — except where those bear directly on fitness assessments made by the federal courts. Legal defeats in private civil representation are noted as background context, not as accountability findings.

How Speech Is Treated: Media appearances characterizing prosecutions as “witch hunts” and repeating election-fraud claims are documented as context for pattern analysis but are not the basis for DMA scoring. Only official prosecutorial actions taken while holding federal office are scored.

Overview

Alina S. Habba is a New Jersey civil litigator who rose from Trump National Golf Club acquaintance to the top federal prosecutorial office in New Jersey in roughly four years. She was appointed Counselor to the President in January 2025 and, in March 2025, designated interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. Her office launched high-profile enforcement actions targeting a sitting Democratic mayor (Ras Baraka of Newark) and a sitting U.S. Representative (LaMonica McIver, D-NJ-10) in connection with a May 2025 incident at the Delaney Hall ICE facility. In August 2025 a federal district court ruled her continued service unlawful under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA). On December 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit affirmed. She resigned as U.S. Attorney on December 8, 2025, and was immediately named Senior Adviser to the Attorney General for U.S. Attorneys by Attorney General Pam Bondi. On January 27, 2026, the Third Circuit declined to rehear the case, teeing up a potential Supreme Court petition. Habba has publicly stated in a sworn declaration that she intends to return to the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office if a higher court rules in her favor.

Background

Alina Habba was born June 17, 1984, in New Jersey to Chaldean Catholic Iraqi immigrant parents. She earned a B.A. from Lehigh University and a J.D. from Widener University Delaware Law School (2010). Before law school she worked in the fashion industry at Marc Jacobs. Her early legal career focused on insurance defense and general civil litigation through a small firm in Bedminster, New Jersey — the same municipality that hosts Trump National Golf Club. She reportedly met Trump at the club in 2021; he named her to his personal legal team shortly thereafter. She had no prior background in criminal law, appellate advocacy, constitutional law, or federal prosecutorial practice.

Democratic Malice Assessment

Cumulative Designation: Pattern of Democratic Malice

Scored Action 1: Arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka at the Delaney Hall ICE Facility (May 2025)

Category: Dissent Suppression DMS: 3 — Knowing Participation

Action: On May 9, 2025, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka — a Democratic candidate for governor — was arrested on federal trespassing charges at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility while attempting to enter alongside three members of Congress conducting an oversight visit. Habba, as acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey, publicly announced and defended the arrest and prosecution. Federal prosecutors dropped the trespassing charge 13 days later, on May 22, 2025.

Key Evidence:

• U.S. Magistrate Judge André Espinosa’s on-the-record rebuke of the U.S. Attorney’s Office: “Your role is not to secure convictions at all costs, nor to satisfy public clamor, nor to advance political agendas. … The hasty arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, followed swiftly by the dismissal of these trespassing charges a mere 13 days later, suggests a worrisome misstep by your Office.” (Transcript of federal proceedings, District of New Jersey, May 2025; reported by CNBC, NBC News, MSNBC.)
• Baraka’s federal civil-rights complaint filed June 2025 in the District of New Jersey alleging false arrest, malicious prosecution, and defamation; complaint identifies Habba as an authorizing official. (NBC News, June 3, 2025; NBC New York; Courthouse News.)
• Contemporaneous DOJ press posture — including Habba’s own televised statements characterizing the mayor’s conduct.

Ideology vs. Malice Determination: Malice. The five-factor test: (i) Process subversion — arrest and charging occurred without normal grand-jury or complaint deliberation and were reversed within 13 days; (ii) Targeted asymmetry — the target was a Democratic mayor and announced gubernatorial candidate exercising civic oversight of a federal facility; (iii) Expert rejection — a sitting federal magistrate publicly rebuked the office for the arrest as a “worrisome misstep”; (iv) Pattern context — the arrest was followed within a month by federal charges against a sitting member of Congress arising from the same incident and a DOJ civil suit against four Democratic-led “sanctuary” cities; (v) Accountability avoidance — the office announced the charges through media before the underlying evidence was resolved. Four of five factors met. The ideological path would be: refer the incident to career line prosecutors, permit normal grand-jury review, and pursue only charges supported by admissible evidence — without prior media staging.

Scored Action 2: Federal Indictment of U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver (June 2025)

Category: Dissent Suppression DMS: 3 — Knowing Participation

Action: On June 10, 2025, a federal grand jury in New Jersey returned a three-count indictment against U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver (D-NJ-10) for allegedly impeding and interfering with federal officers during the May 9, 2025 Delaney Hall incident. Habba personally announced the charges. The indictment carries a maximum exposure of up to 17 years across the three counts.

Key Evidence:

• U.S. Department of Justice, District of New Jersey press release, “Congresswoman Charged for Forcibly Impeding and Interfering With Federal Officers,” June 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/congresswoman-charged-forcibly-impeding-and-interfering-federal-officers
• Federal indictment (D.N.J. June 10, 2025).
• Statement of defense counsel Paul Fishman (former U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey) characterizing the prosecution as “political retaliation against a dedicated public servant who refuses to shy away from her oversight responsibilities.” (NBC News, NPR, June 2025.)
• MSNBC opinion analysis, “Alina Habba’s case against Rep. LaMonica McIver is a weak warning shot at best,” June 2025.

Ideology vs. Malice Determination: Malice. Charging a sitting member of Congress with impeding federal officers during a congressional oversight visit implicates the Speech or Debate Clause and the constitutional oversight prerogative. Five-factor test: (i) Process subversion — indictment announced by the U.S. Attorney personally, with substantial media staging; (ii) Targeted asymmetry — targeted a Democratic member of Congress conducting statutory oversight; (iii) Expert rejection — a former Senate-confirmed U.S. Attorney for the same district (Fishman) publicly identified the prosecution as retaliatory; (iv) Pattern context — the indictment followed the collapsed Baraka prosecution and coincided with a DOJ investigation of the Democratic Governor and Attorney General of New Jersey over sanctuary policy; (v) Accountability avoidance — announced while the underlying magistrate had already rebuked the office for the Baraka arrest. Four of five factors met. The ideological path: refer any evidence of an assault on a federal officer to career line prosecutors for standard grand-jury review, without a public announcement personally by the U.S. Attorney, and with due regard for the Speech or Debate Clause implications of prosecuting a sitting member of Congress for oversight activity.

Scored Action 3: Participation in the Post-Resignation FVRA Circumvention Scheme (July–December 2025)

Category: Rule of Law Destruction DMS: 3 — Knowing Participation

Action: As Habba’s 120-day interim term under the Federal Vacancies Reform Act neared its expiration, the district court judges of New Jersey declined to appoint her as U.S. Attorney under 28 U.S.C. § 546(d). Rather than accept the statutory outcome, Habba resigned the interim role and Attorney General Pam Bondi immediately re-designated her as “special attorney” and “first assistant U.S. Attorney,” delegating the full authority of the U.S. Attorney to her. On December 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit ruled that this arrangement violated the FVRA in three separate ways: only the first assistant in place when the vacancy arose automatically assumes acting duties; Habba’s pending nomination independently barred her from serving as acting officer; and the Attorney General’s delegation of the full U.S. Attorney powers is prohibited by the FVRA’s exclusivity provision. Habba filed a sworn declaration in the case stating her intent to return to the office if a higher court rules in her favor.

Key Evidence:

• In re Alina Habba, No. 25-2635 (3d Cir. Dec. 1, 2025) (precedential opinion by Judge D. Michael Fisher for a three-judge panel). https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/252635p.pdf — Judge Fisher wrote: “It is apparent that the current administration has been frustrated by some of the legal and political barriers to getting its appointees in place, [but] the steps it took to install Habba run afoul of the law.”
• Order of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit denying rehearing en banc, January 27, 2026. (Reported by Politico Pro; The Hill.)
• Underlying District of New Jersey ruling (August 2025) finding Habba’s continued service unlawful.
• Habba’s own sworn declaration stating her intent to return.
• Attorney General Pam Bondi’s public statement (Dec. 8, 2025) confirming Habba’s designation as Senior Adviser to the Attorney General for U.S. Attorneys and her intent to reinstall Habba if the ruling is reversed.

Ideology vs. Malice Determination: Malice. The FVRA is Congress’s statutory limit on the President’s ability to bypass Senate confirmation for principal officers. Five-factor test: (i) Process subversion — the entire “resign and re-delegate as first assistant” mechanism was designed to sidestep both the statutory 120-day cap and the district court’s § 546(d) authority; (ii) Targeted asymmetry — the arrangement concentrated federal prosecutorial power in a single administration loyalist over the objection of the home-state district court; (iii) Expert rejection — a unanimous three-judge panel of the Third Circuit, including a Republican-appointed judge, ruled the arrangement violated three separate provisions of the FVRA; (iv) Pattern context — the arrangement parallels similar U.S. Attorney maneuvers by the same administration in other districts; (v) Accountability avoidance — the arrangement was structured precisely to avoid Senate confirmation, which the President’s nominee could not obtain (the nomination was withdrawn July 24, 2025 after Sen. Andy Kim publicly opposed it). Five of five factors met. Habba’s DMS is capped at 3 (Knowing Participation) rather than 4 (Active Direction) because the record establishes AG Bondi as the directing official; Habba knowingly accepted and executed the arrangement while it was subject to active federal litigation. The ideological path: accept the FVRA’s time limit, permit the district court to make its § 546(d) designation, and if the President wanted Habba in the office, obtain Senate confirmation.

What Is NOT Scored

The following are documented in this profile as context but are not scored under the DMA framework:

• Habba’s private civil-litigation record for Donald Trump (E. Jean Carroll, NY civil fraud, Mary Trump defamation, CNN defamation, Trump v. Clinton). Losing high-stakes civil cases is not democratic mechanism subversion. The $50,000 sanction by Judge Middlebrooks in the Southern District of Florida is a professional-responsibility record, not a DMA-scored action.
• Media appearances characterizing prosecutions of Trump as “witch hunts” and repeating 2020 election claims. Speech alone never qualifies for DMA scoring.
• Her role as senior advisor to the MAGA Inc. super PAC prior to federal service. Political advocacy is protected activity.
• Policy positions on immigration enforcement and sanctuary jurisdictions in the abstract. Immigration policy pursued through legitimate legislative and executive channels is ideology, not malice — even where the platform disagrees on the merits.

Assessment Basis

This assessment scores three specific documented actions taken by Habba while holding federal office: the Baraka arrest, the McIver indictment, and the post-resignation FVRA circumvention scheme. Each action is supported by primary sources (federal court records, published DOJ press releases, transcripts of federal proceedings, or the Third Circuit’s precedential opinion). Speech, association, and party affiliation are excluded from scoring. The Cumulative Designation of “Pattern of Democratic Malice” reflects three actions each scoring at DMS 3 (Knowing Participation), meeting the threshold of “3+ actions scoring DMS 2+.”

Legal Disclaimer

The Democratic Malice Assessment is an analytical framework applying defined criteria to documented public conduct. Designations are evaluative conclusions, not statements of criminal guilt. No DMS score constitutes a finding of criminal liability. The factual predicates are cited to primary sources; the evaluative conclusions are protected expression. New York Times Co. v. Sullivan and its progeny apply to this assessment of a public figure’s public conduct.

Documented Actions

Private Legal Representation of Donald Trump (2021–2025)

Habba’s litigation record for Trump ended in a series of high-profile losses and sanctions:

• SourceCarroll v. Trump, No. 22-cv-10016, S.D.N.Y., trial record; CNN; The New York Times.E. Jean Carroll v. Trump (defamation, S.D.N.Y. 2024): The jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages — the largest defamation verdict against a public figure in U.S. history at the time. During trial, U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan warned Habba she could be jailed for repeatedly attempting to introduce evidence excluded by a prior court ruling.
• People of the State of New York v. Trump (NY civil fraud, 2024): Court imposed $364 million in penalties. Habba’s litigation strategy did not secure a material reduction.
• Mary Trump / New York Times defamation suit ($100 million, S.D.N.Y.): Dismissed.
• Trump v. CNN (defamation, S.D. Fla.): Dismissed.
• SourceTrump v. Clinton, No. 22-cv-14102, S.D. Fla., Sanctions Order (Middlebrooks, J.).Trump v. Clinton et al. (S.D. Fla. 2022): Federal U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks sanctioned Habba and co-counsel $937,989, of which Habba was personally responsible for a $50,000 share of the initial sanctions order, describing the lawsuit as an attempt to use the legal process to harass political opponents.

Counselor to the President (January–March 2025)

Appointed to a senior White House role immediately following the November 2024 election, Habba served roughly two months before being reassigned to the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s office.

Interim / Acting U.S. Attorney, District of New Jersey (March–December 2025)

Trump designated Habba interim U.S. Attorney under 28 U.S.C. § 546(a), triggering a 120-day statutory clock. Trump then formally nominated her for a full four-year term; the nomination stalled after home-state Sen. Andy Kim publicly opposed her, describing her as an “unacceptable partisan choice.” The White House withdrew the nomination on July 24, 2025.

Enforcement actions taken under her direction included:

• The May 9, 2025 arrest and short-lived prosecution of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka (charges dropped May 22, 2025); Baraka filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit against Habba on June 3, 2025.
• The June 10, 2025 federal indictment of Rep. LaMonica McIver on three counts of impeding federal officers.
• A DOJ civil suit filed May 29, 2025 against the cities of Newark, Jersey City, Hoboken, and Paterson challenging their “sanctuary” ordinances.
• A publicly announced investigation of New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy and Attorney General Matt Platkin over the state directive limiting local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

Court Rulings on the Appointment (August 2025 – January 2026)

• August 2025 (D.N.J.): Federal district court ruled Habba’s continued service unlawful under the FVRA.
• December 1, 2025 (3d Cir.): Three-judge panel (Judge D. Michael Fisher writing) affirmed. Precedential published opinion, No. 25-2635.
• December 8, 2025: Habba resigned; AG Bondi named her Senior Adviser to the Attorney General for U.S. Attorneys.
• January 27, 2026 (3d Cir.): Court declined to rehear the case en banc. Path opened for a potential Supreme Court petition.
• Ongoing: Habba’s sworn declaration states intent to return to the U.S. Attorney role if the Supreme Court reverses.

Pattern Analysis

Habba’s federal service illustrates a specific pattern in the second Trump administration: conversion of personal loyalty into institutional prosecutorial power, followed by structural workarounds when the courts or the Senate intervene. The relevant sequence:

1. Personal attorney to Trump (private) → Counselor to the President (senior White House staff) → interim U.S. Attorney (federal prosecutor) — in less than three months.
2. Nomination for the permanent role withdrawn when a single home-state senator withheld consent.
3. Statutory 120-day clock evaded through resignation-and-re-delegation as “first assistant.”
4. Third Circuit ruled all three FVRA workarounds unlawful — unanimously — and denied rehearing.
5. Post-resignation, the same official was placed in DOJ headquarters as the Attorney General’s Senior Adviser overseeing U.S. Attorneys nationwide.

Severity Assessment

• Immediate harm: Moderate — a sitting mayor was arrested on charges dropped within two weeks; a sitting member of Congress was indicted on charges arising from a congressional oversight visit; federal prosecutorial authority was exercised for months by an officer the Third Circuit later ruled had no lawful authority.
• Democratic erosion: High — the FVRA workaround, if not corrected by higher-court reversal or Senate action, functionally nullifies both the statutory time limit on interim appointments and the district court’s role in designating U.S. Attorneys under 28 U.S.C. § 546(d).
• Authoritarian markers: Deployment of federal prosecutorial power against a Democratic gubernatorial candidate and a sitting member of the opposition party from the same incident; concentration of federal prosecutorial power in a single administration loyalist over judicial and senatorial objection; institutional reward (a headquarters DOJ advisory role) following judicial disqualification.

Accountability Status

Current status: Serving as Senior Adviser to the Attorney General for U.S. Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice (December 2025–present). Legal exposure: No criminal charges or indictments. Civil suit pending: Baraka v. Habba et al. (D.N.J.), alleging false arrest, malicious prosecution, and defamation. No known bar disciplinary proceedings as of the last update, though the prior federal-court sanctions (S.D. Fla., 2022) and the Kaplan warning (S.D.N.Y., 2024) remain part of her professional record. Petition status: Third Circuit rehearing denied January 27, 2026; DOJ has indicated it will seek further review, potentially at the Supreme Court.

Truth and Reconciliation Considerations

Investigation priorities

1. Full scope of the FVRA workaround policy. Was the “resign then re-delegate as first assistant” scheme used in other districts? Which officials at Main Justice designed and approved the arrangement?
2. Decision record for the Baraka arrest and McIver indictment. Communications between the U.S. Attorney’s office and Main Justice concerning the timing and target selection of both actions. Any coordination with Homeland Security Investigations and the White House.
3. The pending Baraka civil-rights suit. Discovery in Baraka v. Habba is likely to produce testimony on the internal decision-making around the arrest and its retraction.
4. Bar-discipline referral. Whether the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics, the D.C. Bar, or the U.S. Attorney’s own Office of Professional Responsibility opens or has opened a proceeding based on the Magistrate Espinosa rebuke, the Middlebrooks sanctions, or the Kaplan warning.

Testimony value

Habba’s testimony under oath could illuminate:

• The chain of authorization for the Baraka arrest and the McIver indictment.
• Communications with the White House concerning the FVRA workaround, the withdrawn nomination, and the plan to place her at Main Justice after resignation.
• The relationship between DOJ enforcement priorities and Trump personal or political interests during her tenure in New Jersey.

Institutional reform

• **Codify the Habba holdings.** Congress could clarify the FVRA’s exclusivity provision and prohibit the resignation-and-delegation workaround by statute.
• Restore § 546(d) authority. Reinforce the district courts’ authority to designate U.S. Attorneys after the 120-day interim period.
• U.S. Attorney qualification floor. Require a minimum period of prior prosecutorial experience for interim U.S. Attorney designations, absent extraordinary circumstances.

Cross-References

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For Trump Supporters: Questions Worth Considering

If law and order matters to you, the courtroom record should matter. In the private-practice years, Habba lost the E. Jean Carroll defamation case ($83.3 million verdict). A federal judge threatened her with jail for repeatedly trying to admit evidence a court had already excluded. Another federal judge sanctioned her firm nearly a million dollars — $50,000 of it against her personally — for filing what the court described as a lawsuit designed to harass political opponents rather than seek redress.

If the rule of law matters to you, the Third Circuit’s ruling should matter more. A unanimous three-judge panel — including a judge appointed by a Republican president — ruled that Habba’s continued service as U.S. Attorney violated a federal statute in three separate ways. The Third Circuit then unanimously refused to rehear the case. Whichever party you support, “the President can install a prosecutor the Senate won’t confirm and the district court won’t designate, by having the Attorney General re-delegate the office to a resignee” is not a doctrine you want as precedent when the other party controls the executive branch.

If prosecutorial independence matters to you, sit with this sequence. A sitting Democratic mayor is arrested at a federal facility; charges are dropped within 13 days after a federal magistrate rebukes the office. Weeks later, the U.S. Attorney personally announces federal charges against a sitting Democratic member of Congress arising from the same incident. Then the same administration sues four Democratic cities over their local ordinances, and announces investigations of the Democratic governor and attorney general. If a Democratic U.S. Attorney had done this to Republican officials, would you consider it normal law enforcement — or political prosecution?

The federal courts have already answered the FVRA question. The other questions are yours.

Sources

1. In re Alina Habba, No. 25-2635 (3d Cir. Dec. 1, 2025) (precedential opinion, Fisher, J.). https://www2.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/252635p.pdf
2. NBC News, “Appeals court upholds ruling that disqualified Alina Habba from serving as New Jersey’s top prosecutor,” December 1, 2025. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-disqualified-alina-habba-serving-new-jers-rcna246751
3. CNN Politics, “Former Trump personal lawyer Alina Habba is unlawfully serving as the US attorney for New Jersey, appeals court says,” December 1, 2025. https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/01/politics/alina-habba-new-jersey-3rd-circuit
4. CBS News, “Alina Habba resigns from U.S. attorney’s office after court found her appointment unlawful,” December 8, 2025. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alina-habba-resigns-us-attorney-new-jersey/
5. NPR, “Former Trump attorney Alina Habba resigns as top federal prosecutor in New Jersey,” December 8, 2025. https://www.npr.org/2025/12/08/g-s1-101204/trump-attorney-new-jersey-habba
6. NBC News, “Ex-Trump lawyer Alina Habba announces she’s stepping down as U.S. attorney for N.J.,” December 8, 2025. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/ex-trump-lawyer-alina-habba-announces-stepping-us-attorney-nj-rcna248070
7. Fox News, “Alina Habba becomes Bondi advisor, leaving role as top New Jersey prosecutor,” December 8, 2025. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/alina-habba-becomes-bondi-advisor-leaving-role-top-new-jersey-prosecutor
8. The Hill, “Alina Habba case: Appeals court won’t reconsider disqualification, paving way to Supreme Court,” January 27, 2026. https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5706899-federal-appeals-court-declines-rehear/
9. U.S. Department of Justice, District of New Jersey, “Congresswoman Charged for Forcibly Impeding and Interfering With Federal Officers,” June 2025. https://www.justice.gov/usao-nj/pr/congresswoman-charged-forcibly-impeding-and-interfering-federal-officers
10. NPR, “Rep. McIver is indicted on federal charges related to tussle at immigration facility,” June 11, 2025. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/11/g-s1-72175/mciver-indicted-federal-charges-immigration-new-jersey
11. NBC News, “Newark Mayor Ras Baraka sues Alina Habba over his arrest at an immigration detention center,” June 3, 2025. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/newark-mayor-ras-baraka-sues-alina-habba-arrest-immigration-detention-rcna210581
12. CNBC, “Newark mayor sues Trump’s NJ prosecutor Alina Habba over ‘false arrest’ at immigration jail,” June 3, 2025. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2025/06/03/trump-habba-baraka-lawsuit-ice.html
13. Courthouse News Service, “Newark mayor sues Alina Habba over trespassing arrest at immigration center,” 2025. https://www.courthousenews.com/newark-mayor-sues-alina-habba-over-trespassing-arrest-at-immigration-center/
14. New Jersey Globe, “Trump nominates Habba for full U.S. Attorney term,” 2025. https://newjerseyglobe.com/judiciary/trump-nominates-habba-for-full-u-s-attorney-term/
15. Washington Examiner, “Trump nominates Alina Habba to be permanent US attorney for New Jersey,” 2025. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/3460970/trump-nominates-alina-habba-us-attorney-new-jersey/
16. Trump v. Clinton, No. 22-cv-14102 (S.D. Fla. 2022), Sanctions Order (Middlebrooks, J.).
17. Carroll v. Trump, No. 22-cv-10016 (S.D.N.Y. 2024), trial record.
18. BBC News, “Alina Habba: Who is Trump’s new presidential counsellor?” January 2025.
19. Wikipedia, “Alina Habba,” last accessed June 2026. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina_Habba
20. Federal Vacancies Reform Act, 5 U.S.C. §§ 3345–3349.

Last Updated: June 30, 2026 Profile Status: Active — currently serving as Senior Adviser to the Attorney General Next Review: Quarterly (September 2026)