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A newly declassified government document has revealed the active efforts on the part of the FBI and the Department of Justice to shut down an investigation into the alleged pay-to-play scheme assembled by the Clinton Foundation while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state for Barack Obama.
It is Just the News that revealed the actions at the time, heading into the 2016 election, when the family foundation run by the Clintons solicited "contributions" and "donations" – totaling hundreds of millions of dollars – from various groups that had business pending before the federal bureaucracy, which Hillary Clinton ran.
The report explained Kash Patel, now FBI director, found a "bombshell" memo from 2017 that chronicled the "extensive political obstruction that career agents in three cities faced from their own bosses and the Obama Justice Department during the 2016 election as they probed whether Hillary Clinton engaged in a pay-to-play corruption scheme."
The government documents show Sally Yates, then deputy attorney general, ordered, "Shut it down!"
It was federal agents in New York City, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Washington, D.C., who "tried to get the help of federal prosecutors to determine whether or what crimes occurred while Hillary Clinton served as secretary of state, most notably, because at that time, her family foundation solicited hundreds of millions of dollars from foreign and U.S. interests with business before her department," Just the News documented.
The timeline is from a Department of Justice lawyer assigned to the FBI by then FBI chief James Comey, who now is under congressional investigation himself for pushing the scandalous, and false, Russiagate conspiracy theory to hurt Trump.
The document was secured by top aides to Patel, along with corroborating internal emails, and was accessed by Just the News.
"Together, they make clear that both the DOJ and former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe placed significant impediments in front of agents who believed they had evidence to justify a public integrity criminal case," the report said.
In fact, the report noted, early in 2016 the DOJ said it would "not be supportive of an FBI investigation."
McCabe's own order, the report said, was that "no overt investigative steps" were allowed, and other roadblocks soon surfaced into the issue that the foundation did, in fact, get massive donations during that time period, donations that promptly plunged when Hillary Clinton's attempt to gain control of the Oval Office failed.
"Patel's discovery of the memo and related emails comes at a sensitive time as Attorney General Pam Bondi has approved the use of a strike force and a grand jury to investigate whether law enforcement and intelligence abuses over the last decade amounted to a criminal conspiracy to protect Democrats like Clinton and Joe Biden while inflicting harm on Trump and his followers," the report explained.
The report said there was no explanation over Yates' order to close it down, or the statement from New York federal prosecutors they would not "support" such an investigation.
The documents show that agents "were thwarted" from their investigation into the Clinton Foundation's antics, "no matter where" they turned, the report said.
The report noted there was a meeting of multiple FBI and DOJ officials, not identified, and the talk was about opening an investigation. One official authorized three offices to begin looking but "to not take any investigative steps until the matter was discussed with DOJ."
A report from special counsel John Durham later said one part of that investigation started because of the likelihood an industry was engaged with "a federal public official in a flow of benefits scheme, namely, large monetary contributions were made to a non-profit, under both direct and indirect control of the federal public official, in exchange for favorable government action and/or influence."
Durham's conclusion eventually was that all three of the branches were considering investigations on that basis, that foreign governments made, or offered, contributions to the Clinton Foundation in exchange for favors from Clinton.
However, McCabe's instructions were that nothing happened without his approval, and the orders sent to agents that they were not allowed to look for confidential sources on the issue. The investigations eventually were killed.
Comey also later stepped in to help Hillary Clinton in another dangerous scandal, that of putting government secrets on an unsecure and private computer server in her home, when he called her "careless" but claimed "no reasonable prosecutor" would pursue the charges.
Another special prosecutor later found Comey's actions supporting Clinton were "insubordinate."
The report charged, "The differences in how the Justice Department and FBI handled cases related to Clinton and Trump were stark — publicly exonerating Clinton for her mishandling of classified information when using a private email server as secretary of state and not even allowing the Clinton Foundation investigation to get off the ground, while launching a sprawling and baseless Russia collusion inquiry into the Trump campaign and the candidate (and then the president) himself."
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President Trump posted to Truth Social today that special envoy Steve Witkoff had just had a "highly productive" meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin as the administration continues to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
Trump wrote: "My Special Envoy, Steve Witkoff, just had a highly productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Great progress was made! Afterwards, I updated some of our European Allies. Everyone agrees this War must come to a close, and we will work towards that in the days and weeks to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Recently, the president has expressed frustration with Putin over U.S. efforts to end the war. Last month, Trump gave Putin a 50-day deadline to reach a ceasefire deal, and then reduced it to 10 days. That was eight days ago.
Trump's punishment for failure was to impose sanctions and secondary tariffs on nations that purchase Russian oil and gas.
Reportedly, the meeting between Putin and Witkoff, held at the Kremlin, lasted about three hours.
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FBI Director Kash Patel, along with federal law-enforcement resources, has been enlisted to help state authorities track down and arrest Democrat Texas lawmakers who've fled to Illinois to prevent the Republican-controlled legislature from approving a redistricting plan that favors the GOP.
As reported by the Gateway Pundit, Texas U.S. Sen. John Cornyn Monday sent a letter to Patel, urging the FBI to deploy federal resources to assist in the Democrats' arrest.
"I have asked FBI Director Kash to work with Greg Abbott & Texas law enforcement to investigate potential CRIMINAL acts, including bribery, and to hold legislators accountable who have fled the state in a shameful attempt to stall the legislative process in the Texas House," Cornyn wrote on X.
Wrote Cornyn in his letter: "As a maneuver to avoid legislative responsibilities, on August 3, 2025, many members in the Texas House of Representatives absconded from the state.
"Their stated goal was to prevent the legislature from properly meeting, in violation of their oath of office. By leaving the State of Texas, these legislators intend to prevent the existence of a quorum in the Texas House of Representatives. Without a quorum, no legislative activity can proceed."
The new Trump-approved map under consideration in a special legislative session redraws the state's congressional district in a way that likely would mean five additional Republican seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton released a fiery statement Monday condemning Democrat lawmakers who fled the state in a coordinated effort to derail the Texas Legislature and vowed to arrest them.
"I am prepared to do everything in my power to hold them accountable because these liberal lawmakers are not above the law," said Paxton. "It's imperative that they be swiftly arrested, punished, and face the full force of the law for turning their backs on the people of Texas."
The process of denying quorum has been used in multiple states and by both parties as a means of stalling or quashing legislation proposed by the majority party.
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The once-popular "Lion King" movies talk over and over about the "circle of life," which, in fact is nothing but predators higher on the food chain stalking, killing and eating their prey.
Now a zoo in Denmark has come up with its own "circle" that cuts out stalking and killing.
But junior may not be entirely pleased if his pet hamster, or a little girl may be concerned that her rabbit, would become food for a local zoo's predators.
It is the Aalborg zoo in northern Denmark that now, according to Not the Bee, is "trying to mimic the natural food chain" by asking families to donate small pets – to be fed to lions and tigers and bears.
The zoo claims the program is "for the sake of both animal welfare and professional integrity."
It says the pets will be "gently euthanized," then fed to the predators.
"Yes, mom and dad, if you have a little guinea pig that needs to make an unscheduled journey to Guinea Pig heaven …, " charges Not the Bee.
The report cites comments from the Associated Press about how the zoo is pointing to "guinea pigs, rabbits and chickens" as possible donations.
"That way, nothing goes to waste — and we ensure natural behavior, nutrition and well-being of our predators," the zoo statement said.
Said Not the Bee, "Ahh, yes, there's nothing more natural for a jungle predator than to have a pre-euthanized baby hamster that belonged to a little kid served to him through a little chute. Truly, this zoo is keeping their animals in tip-top hunting shape!"
The report noted the online request for pets features a picture of a wildcat baring its teeth.
Further, the facility said it also is interested in receiving horses.
The AP reported the zoo, on social media, explains, "if you have a healthy animal that needs to be given away for various reasons, feel free to donate it to us."
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'The route to a successful career does not have to take you through college'
Artificial intelligence is on the move, advancing quickly into jobs that college graduates heretofore had considered their domain.
But A.I. likely isn't ever going to haul a hot water heater to a residence and install it. Or paint that siding, or replace an air conditioning unit. Or fix that broken transmission or replace a muffler.
And now those who want to get training in those so essential, but more physical, job pursuits will be getting some help.
In fact, a report at the College Fix outlines how President Donald Trump's new budget allows $500 billion for trade schools.
The money now is in 529 accounts, special tax-benefited savings accounts that parents often open for their children. Money there until now has been allowed for college expenses, but faced other limits.
The College Fix now reports in Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill" is a change that allows 529 savings accounts "to be used to help pay for a broader range of post-high school credentials, like certification in specialties like auto mechanics or food safety, and related expenses."
"This means the estimated $500 billion in 529 plans can now be used to pay for trade school and even tools in some cases," the report explained.
One requirement is that the training come from "an accredited program."
"Higher education consultants interviewed by the NY Times were generally optimistic about the new policy," the report explained.
Andrea Feirstein explained "The route to a successful career does not have to take you through college."
The report noted, "It seems plausible the change, once more people learn about it, could lead to an increase in savings in these accounts. This is because parents may have been wary in the past to tie up money in the accounts, fearing their children might not use it if they ended up going to trade school. Now there is more flexibility and a recognition in law that college is not the only way to success, as Feirstein pointed out to the NY Times."
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A report at Colorado Politics has documented the state's long history of work toward the agenda that was only over the last few years actually put into an organized plan when Joe Biden pushed his "abortion-for-all-at-any-time" ideologies.
Of course that would be at taxpayer expense.
The state, now turned entirely leftist with Democrats running the governor's office, the state House and Senate, and an all-Democrat state Supreme Court that wildly tried to ban President Donald Trump from the 2024 ballot, only to be put in their place by the U.S. Supreme Court, recently adopted a law claiming that abortion now is a right in the state Constitution.
"It's well known that Colorado was the first state in the nation to enact a law that allowed a woman to obtain an abortion," the report explains. That was in 1967, about the time state Rep. Dick Lamm, a Denver Democrat and later governor, opined publicly that seniors have a "duty to die."
He sponsored the bill, which ironically triggered the creation by opponents of Colorado Right to Life, and shortly later, the National Right to Life.
Voters there, not always in alignment with the pro-abortion political campaigns, then voted to ban public funding of abortions. Multiple attempts to stop the abortion ideologues fell by the wayside, but lawmakers did, in 2003, adopt a parental notification.
But alongside was a "bubble" law suppressing First Amendment rights in zones around abortion industry members.
Now a lawsuit pending in the state is demanding a vast new standard that pro-life interests warn could go national: A ruling that parents have no role in a minor child's abortion.
It is the American Center for Law and Justice that said, "If this lawsuit succeeds, it won't just impact Colorado families. It will open the door for minors to cross state lines for secret abortions – without their parents ever knowing. It will rob parents of the chance to protect their daughters in one of the most vulnerable and life-altering moments of their lives. That's not just dangerous – it's a heartbreaking betrayal of parental rights.
"The complaint proudly describes Colorado as a 'haven for abortion seekers' – even a state intentionally open to out-of-state minors seeking abortions without parental involvement. While the complaint presents this as a virtue, it opens the door to serious risks," the ACLJ reported. "When a girl crosses state lines for a secret abortion, and no one notifies her parents, who's looking out for her safety? What if she's being abused, trafficked, or pressured?
"The ACLJ has raised these concerns in court before. We've shown that abortion – especially when done in secret – is often used to cover up abuse: Traffickers and predators use abortion to erase evidence and keep victims under control. Abortion clinics have been caught failing to report clear signs of abuse. And minors impregnated by abusers may be forced into silence and secrecy.
"By advertising itself as a no-questions-asked abortion hub, Colorado creates a blind spot that predators can exploit. What's marketed as 'safe access' quickly becomes a shield for exploitation. The infuriating irony is that the very arguments framed as 'pro-woman' are enabling some of the worst abuses of women and girls."
The lawsuit is by abortionist Rebecca Cohen, who is demanding the state strike down its own parental notification law.
"She overlooks a critical fact: In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion. That decision returned abortion policymaking to the states. Meanwhile, the federal constitutional right of parents to direct their children's upbringing – including decisions about medical care – remains fully intact. The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed this right in landmark cases, such as Pierce v. Society of Sisters and Wisconsin v. Yoder," the ACLJ said.
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Former U.S. Transportation Secretary and potential Democrat presidential candidate in 2028 Pete Buttigieg has tempered his support for so-called transgender athletes competing in women's sports.
As Fox News reported, during an interview with NPR, Buttigieg acknowledged "fairness issues" in the debate.
"Around sports, … I think most reasonable people would recognize that there are serious fairness issues if you just treat this as not mattering when a trans athlete wants to compete in women's sports," Buttigieg said.
The former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, admitted that parents of girl athletes who raise concern about males competing against their daughters have a reasonable argument, but he says he doesn't believe the issue should be regulated from Washington, D.C.
"I think these decisions should be in the hands of sports leagues and school boards and not politicians … in Washington trying to use this as a political pawn," Buttigieg said.
"Chess is different from weightlifting, and weightlifting is different from volleyball and middle school is different from the Olympics. So, that's exactly why I think that we shouldn't be grandstanding on this as politicians. We should be empowering communities and organizations and schools to make the right decisions."
However, as Fox News points out, Mayor Pete's former boss, President Joe Biden, passed an executive order on his first day in office in 2021 that said, "Children should be able to learn without worrying about whether they will be denied access to the restroom, the locker room, or school sports."
Also, Democrats in Congress tried to pass the Transgender Bill of Rights and the Equality Act, both of which would have allowed trans athletes to compete in girls and women's sports.
Buttigieg joins several other prominent Democrats and pundits who have spoken out against allowing males to compete with females, including California Gov. Gavin Newsom; Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass.; and HBO host Bill Maher.
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It is science that many, many products used to vaccinate children against the threats of various diseases use cell lines obtained from abortions to develop or test those products.
And some do a great deal of good while others have left behind serious injuries.
Church organizations and faith groups long have delivered advice to their faithful on how to address the conflict between a legitimate opposition to abortion – the unneeded deaths of the unborn – and protecting against infection.
All those groups now, apparently, can halt their discussions. It is the American Association of Pediatrics that has announced its own religious beliefs and its plans to seek to enforce those against anyone believing differently.
Citing only a single writing that argues for doctors to push parents to overlook their own beliefs, even lobby and "inform" religious leaders, the organization has ruled that, "Among the major world religious traditions, none include scriptural or doctrinal guidelines that preclude adherents from being vaccinated."
The stunning dictate comes in the organization's new statement in which it states now, "The AAP advocates for the elimination of nonmedical exemptions from immunizations as contrary to optimal individual and public health."
That announcement confirms that most jurisdictions allow medical exemptions to the dozens of shots the pediatricians want to deliver to children, but rules for nonmedical exemptions vary.
Their conclusion is that there should be none of those, that parents will have the choice either to subject their children to the doctors' lists of shots, or their children will not be allowed in places like daycare and school.
The statement claims that, "The leaders of some religious groups have highlighted that vaccination can be one important way to protect oneself and one's neighbors and have thus suggested that there is a moral or religious obligation to seek vaccination."
"State legislatures are rightly reticent to enact public policies that are perceived to interfere with the exercise of religion. However, in practice, nonmedical exceptions based on religious belief can substantially limit the public health value of vaccine requirements for school attendance," the statement said. "There is no practicable way for schools or other involved community partners to distinguish fairly among religious or other nonmedical claims. State-level policies that differentiate among these types of claims serve only to introduce opportunities for uneven application, which in turn leads inevitably to disparities in immunization coverage and schools that are less safe."
A report at Liberty Daily said the statement came out as an "update" to the AAP's policies.
"We recommend that vaccination is required for participation in certain public activities, such as school and daycare, and if you choose not to vaccinate, you're essentially choosing to exclude yourself from those settings," lead author Jesse Hackell said in the report.
"We recognize that excluding a child from public education does have problems, and yet, we reach the conclusion that, on balance, assuring the safety of the school and daycare environment outweighs that risk because there are other educational opportunities available."
All states require proof of immunizations now, and all grant medical exemptions. Religious exemptions, which the AAP wants destroyed, are available in 45 of the states.
Kim Mack Rosenberg, general counsel for Children's Health Defense, told The Defender that religious freedom is a "hot-button" issue nationwide, according to the Liberty Daily.
"The AAP's statement calling for an end to religious exemptions to immunization ignores constitutionally protected rights regarding religious freedom and potentially is in violation of other laws as well. AAP blatantly suggests that schools discriminate against families with faith-based reasons to not take some or all vaccines.
"To claim otherwise is to play word games — just as AAP suggests that families are not forced to take vaccines that conflict with their religious beliefs but instead that families simply must choose, in those instances, between attending school and staying true to their religious values," she explained.
The Liberty Daily noted the concern from Dr. Michelle Perro, author of "What's Making Our Children Sick?: How Industrial Food Is Causing an Epidemic of Chronic Illness, and What Parents (and Doctors) Can Do About It."
"As a pediatrician committed to informed consent and patient rights based on non-biased science, I strongly support the continued access to medical, religious and philosophical vaccine exemptions," she explained, noting many vaccines use cell lines from aborted fetal tissue, raising moral and ethical issues for those who don't promote abortion.
"In addition, vaccines contain adjuvants and excipients such as aluminum salts, polysorbate 80 and formaldehyde that create neurotoxicity and immune dysregulation in some children. Compounding these issues is the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program [VICP], which grants vaccine manufacturers legal immunity, leaving families with no recourse when vaccine injuries occur," she noted.
That liability exemption soon may end, however.
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week criticized the VICP and vowed to fix it.
"I will not allow the VICP to continue to ignore its mandate and fail its mission of quickly and fairly compensating vaccine-injured individuals," he explained.
However, civil rights lawyers have pointed out the Supreme Court has ruled that parents have a fundamental right to raise their children according to their religious beliefs, and any government violation of that demands the highest possible legal standard.
The report noted public support for religious exemptions was 20% in 2019, but nearly 40% this year.
The Liberty Daily explained, "In its statement, the AAP appeared to question the legitimacy of people's religious beliefs. It said no major world religious traditions 'include scriptural or doctrinal guidelines that preclude adherents from being vaccinated.'"
AAP is a lobbying group that gets some of its funding from corporations that make vaccines.
"The government Open Payments database shows that lead author Hackell has taken money from Merck, Pfizer, Seqirus and GSK since 2018. Author Dr. Lisa M. Kafer has received payments from the same companies, as well as others," the report said.
One social media commenter pointed out the religious basis for the AAP ruling: "In the name of 'science,' they push a monotheism of medicine – one shot schedule, no dissent, no nuance."
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The Iranian regime is facing an unprecedented crisis – like three guillotine blades suspended above its head, each poised to fall at any moment.
Blade one: Israel
The first blade is the threat posed by Israel. Should the regime resume aggressive uranium enrichment or covert efforts toward building a nuclear weapon, a military response from Israel is almost inevitable – especially given Tel Aviv's deep intelligence infiltration at the highest levels of Iran's leadership. From sabotage of nuclear facilities to targeted assassinations and open threats of military action, Israel has shown clear readiness. The Trump-era doctrine that "Iran must never acquire a nuclear weapon"\ continues to influence U.S. policy, reinforcing Israel's position.
Blade two: The snapback mechanism
The second blade is the potential reimposition of U.N. sanctions. If Iran fails to reach a deal with Europe by October, the snapback mechanism may be triggered – automatically reinstating all previous U.N. Security Council sanctions.
Blade Three: Economic collapse
The third blade is the regime's collapsing economy. With chronic inflation around 40%, over 80% of the population living below the poverty line and livelihoods in crisis, Iran is a powder keg. If either of the two previous scenarios – an Israeli strike or renewed U.N. sanctions – comes to pass, the result could be an economic explosion. Macroeconomic indicators would crash: Inflation, currency devaluation, widespread poverty and social unrest could rapidly trigger mass protests and street uprisings.
Why is the regime so passive in the face of these existential threats?
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who holds absolute authority over all state affairs, is now conspicuously absent – reportedly retreating to an underground bunker in fear of further bombings. Other high-ranking officials have gone into hiding. No major meetings are taking place. This paralysis at the top reflects a broader system-wide inertia.
Khamenei's strategic deadlock
Khamenei is trapped. He can neither continue with the regime's nuclear ambitions nor retreat. Admitting failure in a nuclear project that has impoverished millions would signal the beginning of the end for the repressive apparatus. Meanwhile, the regime is so deeply corrupt and structurally hollow that even if it desired reform, it lacks the capacity to implement it.
The 'No war, no peace' limbo
This ambiguous state – neither war nor peace – also helps explain the regime's inaction. It has become a tactical buffer, stalling the full activation of the Resistance Units linked to the opposition group Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), even as the hated regime itself grows weaker with each passing day.
The regime's survival playbook
Amid this deadlock, three factions are proposing strategies to rescue the regime:
Reformists – Figures like Mir-Hossein Mousavi, under house arrest for over 30 years, have called for a referendum and constitutional reform. But they overlook a critical truth: Even the smallest reform requires a degree of freedom – and even limited freedom would unravel the regime's rotten core.
Economic experts – A group of 180 economists and academics recently issued a public call for "reform of the ruling paradigm." For a regime like this, such a demand is tantamount to suicide.
Hardliners – The IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency openly praised the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners as a "successful experience" and has called for a repeat to suppress today's opposition.
Endgame
Diplomats like Abbas Araghchi continue to parrot outdated slogans about Iran's "right to enrich uranium" – failing to grasp that the regime now faces a binary choice: survival or collapse.
It can retreat, perhaps gain some sanctions relief, and temporarily stabilize the economy.
Or it can dig in – and accelerate its downfall.
But for a regime built on repression, any retreat marks the start of the end. The Iranian people, having lost faith in the regime's crumbling foundations, are turning to the Resistance.
Thousands of MEK-affiliated Resistance Units, the regime's sworn enemy, are ready to channel public anger into a force for overthrowing the dictatorship.
Only one question remains: Which of the three guillotine blades will fall first?
History will decide – and the streets will not wait
No regime chanting "Neither East nor West" has ever ended up this dependent on Russia, China and criminal trafficking networks. No regime shouting "No war, no surrender" has ever stood so close to both war and surrender.
And yet, the true threat to the regime today is not the snapback mechanism, nor Israel's jets, nor even the state's empty treasury. The real danger lies in the Resistance – advancing the Iranian people's vision of a secular, pluralistic republic free from tyrannical religious rule.
The Iranian people are alert. They are waiting for the next spark – just as in 2022. When it ignites, the regime will be called to account:
* For the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988,
* For sending tens of thousands of children to clear landmines in the Iran-Iraq War,
* For the deaths of millions across the region,
* For the mass emigration of the nation's best and brightest,
* For the destruction of Iran's rich culture at the hands of clerics who cloaked savagery in the name of Islam.
Above all, the regime will be held accountable by a nation that has neither forgotten nor forgiven what it has suffered at the mullahs' hands and is more prepared than ever to go the distance to bring about real change.
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Political gamesmanship over who's going to be the U.S. attorney in New Jersey continues, as Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday immediately fired the replacement for President Trump's pick Alina Habba who had been ousted from her interim position by federal judges.
In a post on X, Bondi said Habba "has been doing a great job in making NJ safe again. Nonetheless, politically minded judges refused to allow her to continue in her position, replacing Alina with the First Assistant.
"Accordingly, the First Assistant United States Attorney in New Jersey has just been removed.
Bondi concluded: "This Department of Justice does not tolerate rogue judges – especially when they threaten the President's core Article II powers."
Axios reported the first assistant who got the ax is Desiree Leigh Grace. a nine-year career prosecutor who previously ran the New Jersey office's criminal division.
ABC News reports: "Federal law gives district judges the authority to name a United States attorney if the president's nominee is not acted upon by the U.S. Senate within 120 days.
"Previous Justice Departments have recognized that district judges have the authority to name a United States attorney if the president's nominee is not acted upon by the U.S. Senate within 120 days.
"It's unclear if the Trump Justice Department now believes it can bypass that process or if it plans to seek Senate confirmation for Habba."
Habba's term as interim U.S. attorney expires Friday night at 11:59 p.m., but a group of federal judges Tuesday refused to extend her time on the job after House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries pushed to oust her, citing her indictment of U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, D-N.J., who allegedly body-checked an ICE agent.
"The so-called U.S. Attorney in NJ maliciously indicted Congresswoman LaMonica McIver for doing her job," Jeffries said.
"Alina Habba is a woefully unqualified political hack who has to go.
"She must be rejected by the Federal District Court judges who are considering whether to retain her."