{"id":68587,"date":"2026-03-10T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/us-attorneys-handpicked-by-pam-bondi-were-appointed-illegally-judge-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T08:56:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:56:17","slug":"us-attorneys-handpicked-by-pam-bondi-were-appointed-illegally-judge-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/us-attorneys-handpicked-by-pam-bondi-were-appointed-illegally-judge-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"US attorneys handpicked by Pam Bondi were appointed illegally, judge rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge said prosecutors picked to replace Alina Habba repeated error of bypassing congressional approval<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Three prosecutors installed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Donald Trump\u2019s administration<\/a> to lead the New Jersey attorney general\u2019s office after the president\u2019s former personal lawyer was disqualified from the role in December were also illegally appointed, a federal judge has ruled.<\/p>\n<p>Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, handpicked the three to replace Alina Habba, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/08\/alina-habba-resign-new-jersey-federal-prosecutor\">resigned<\/a> after a succession of district and appeals court rulings that she was serving illegally because she never received Senate confirmation.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/10\/attorneys-appointed-pam-bondi-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal judge said prosecutors picked to replace Alina Habba repeated error of bypassing congressional approval Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox Three prosecutors installed by Donald Trump\u2019s administration to lead the New Jersey attorney general\u2019s office after the president\u2019s former personal lawyer was disqualified from the &#8230; <a title=\"US attorneys handpicked by Pam Bondi were appointed illegally, judge rules\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/us-attorneys-handpicked-by-pam-bondi-were-appointed-illegally-judge-rules\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US attorneys handpicked by Pam Bondi were appointed illegally, judge rules\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}