This story was originally published by the WND News Center.
Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey whose position has been the subject of legal gymnastics since her appointment by President Donald Trump, is now alleging "collusion" against her as she calls out Republican senators she says are trying to block her confirmation.
Appearing on "Sunday Morning Futures" with Maria Bartiromo on the Fox News Channel, Habba criticized U.S. Sen. Tillis of North Carolina and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa for what she called "the new lawfare."
"The president was rightfully voted in by a majority of Americans, and he is entitled to pick his U.S. attorneys, his Department of Justice officials, his judges, so that we can continue the agenda that the American public voted for which is to get rid of crime," Habba began.
"In the state of New Jersey in June alone, we arrested over 300 criminals, illegals, rapists. What is so bad about that work?"
"The truth is it has nothing to do with the work that we're doing. It has nothing to do with the crime that we're stopping. It has to do with trying to prevent President Trump from continuing his agenda, and it has to stop!"
"So I would say to Sen. Tillis and Sen. Grassley: You are becoming part of the issue. You are becoming part of the antithesis of what we fought for four years."
"We cannot allow and promote that kind of behavior. It is not just about me. It is about people across the country, U.S. attorneys across the country that just want to do right by Americans that voted for President Trump and this administration."
On Saturday, President Trump posted on Truth Social a 2017 quote from Grassley, in which Grassley stated: "We should not allow home-state senators to abuse this courtesy by attempting to block committee proceedings for political or ideological reasons."
Bartiromo also asked Habba about an unusual circumstance in which Habba's "first assistant was in the wedding party of the federal judge" who has ruled Habba has been illegally serving in her current post.
"We had a very strange situation that I was made very aware of months ago," Habba explained.
"The Department of Justice official who was named to replace me was very close with federal judges that voted me out and voted her in. It was not a typical situation. It was not a partisan situation. It was solely, 'Let's get our person in.'
"What they don't understand is Article 3 judges do not pick the U.S. attorney for the state. The president, Pam Bondi, the attorney general, that's who picks it.
"And they had a collusion, a plan. I'm aware of it and the Department of Justice is aware of it, and soon enough it will come out. It was inappropriate it was unethical and, frankly, senators ordering the judges in tweets to vote against me was also inappropriate, and it was all because of one arrest I made which I stand by."
The single arrest she referred to was the detainment of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who allegedly body slammed an ICE agent as she impeded and interfered with federal officers as they attempted to arrest an individual outside the Delaney Hall Federal Immigration Facility in Newark, New Jersey, on May 9, 2025.
