JUST IN: Alina Habba Tapped For Massive New Role At DOJ

Alina Habba, the faithful and fastidious legal counsel to President Donald Trump through his various criminal trials, is headed to a top post in the U.S. Department of Justice.

In an announcement on Monday, Trump said that his longtime attorney will be joining U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in enforcing the administration’s agenda in the state of New Jersey, where she will serve as the state’s interim U.S. Attorney.

Habba, currently serving as Counselor to the President, “will lead with the same diligence and conviction that has defined her career, and she will fight tirelessly to secure a Legal System that is both ‘Fair and Just’ for the wonderful people of New Jersey,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

Just 40 years old, Habba, a New Jersey native, has been as tenacious in defending President Trump as one could expect among those who he has welcomed into his inner circle. For two years, Habba railed against former President Joe Biden and his Attorney General Merrick Garland for bringing cases against Trump related to the storage of classified documents and the January 6th, 2021, riots at the Capitol.

Following the unforgettable FBI raid of Mar-a-Lago in search of classified documents, Habba undoubtedly pleased Trump when she called special counsel Jack Smith a “Democrat activist” and suggested the fact that Biden was running against Trump was tainting her client’s chance for a fair trial.

“By no means was Donald Trump filling up a U-Haul, trying to scurry away [with] documents. I mean, it’s ridiculous. It’s a completely ridiculous theory, and it’s a ridiculous indictment,” she said at the time.

In case after case, her pugnacious approach to the law has been proven effective. Habba was among the first to call out Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis for prejudice in her decision to charge President Trump with state election interference, and the case fell apart after it was revealed that Willis had carried on a private relationship with an assistant district attorney.

“We do not agree that it is a perilous threat. We actually have inside information,” she told Fox News when the charges were first announced, and Trump was infamously brought into the sheriff’s office for the first criminal mugshot of a current or former president.

New Jersey is ripe with Democratic corruption, affording Habba the chance to establish her bona fides as a conservative crusader in a target-rich environment.

In January, former U.S. Sen Bob Menendez (D-NJ) was convicted of corruption related to years of bribery by New Jersey businessmen who leveraged his position on the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee to secure contracts with the Egyptian government.

Menendez, whose sentencing is set for April 24th, is just the latest figure in a series of scandal-tarred Garden State pols who have given the state its soured reputation. Former Governor Chris Christie avoided charges for the 2013 closure of the George Washington bridge, though two of his staffers were convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges.

Jon Corzine, the former governor who lost his reelection to Christie, was charged in 2013 by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for misappropriating client funds at the shuttered capital firm MF Global. He ultimately settled with the commission by paying a $5 million fine.