Acting U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba slammed Republican Senators Thom Tillis (NC) and Chuck Grassley (IA) after a judge ruled that President Donald Trump appointed her unlawfully.
During a Sunday interview with Habba on Fox News, host Maria Bartiromo noted that Democratic senators had used so-called “blue slips” to prevent the Senate from approving some of Trump’s nominations.
“It allows senators to block certain nominees who would oversee their home states,” Bartiromo explained. “The practice is a Senate tradition. It is not the law.”
“We’re fighting as usual,” Habba said. “It’s the new lawfare. It’s the same thing that they tried with Tish James. And now they’re doing it with U.S. attorneys and judges, and it’s not just me.”
“This tradition that Senator Grassley is upholding, effectively prevents anybody in a blue state from going through into Senate to then be voted on,” she continued. “I was, according to them, unqualified. Why? Because I arrested a congresswoman for a charge of assaulting a police officer.”
Habba insisted that she stood by the arrest of Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) after her protest at an immigration detention facility. She also said she wasn’t surprised by Grassley’s decision to support Tillis’ threat to vote against her if the blue slip tradition was not honored.
