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Davenport pushes against proposed rule to protect DOJ lawyers from state bar investigations

April 7, 2026 1:56 pm

Attorney General Jennifer Davenport joined most of the country’s other Democratic attorney generals to sign a letter denouncing a proposed rule that would limit state-based investigations of federal attorneys. The Department of Justice last month proposed a rule that would...

How federal judges and the White House came together to pick a new U.S. Attorney

March 26, 2026 1:19 pmMarch 27, 2026 12:24 am

The March 23 announcement that New Jersey’s District Court judges had appointed Robert Frazer as the next U.S. Attorney took almost everyone by surprise, but it followed several days of negotiations between the state’s top federal judge and a leading...

DHS officer who oversaw Baraka’s arrest is now U.S. Marshal in New York

March 16, 2026 5:10 pmMarch 16, 2026 5:10 pm

Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security officer who oversaw the controversial 2025 arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka during a detention center oversight visit was given a new job: U.S. Marshal for the Southern District of New York....

DOJ sues Sherrill over order limiting ICE’s use of state property

February 24, 2026 10:10 amFebruary 24, 2026 10:39 am

Days after Gov. Mikie Sherrill signed an order barring federal agents from launching civil immigration enforcement operations from state property, the U.S. Department of Justice is suing New Jersey in a bid to overturn the policy. The lawsuit, filed in...

D.C. Dispatch: What N.J.’s members of Congress did in Washington this week

February 14, 2026 11:54 amFebruary 16, 2026 3:45 pm

Congressional hearings were the talk of the town this week in D.C. as top Trump administration officials came before House and Senate committees to testify on immigration enforcement and the Epstein files; four members of the New Jersey delegation got...

Habba asks Third Circuit to reconsider U.S. Attorney disqualification

January 15, 2026 10:06 amJanuary 15, 2026 1:22 pm

A month after her dramatic disqualification and subsequent resignation from the U.S. Attorney’s office in New Jersey, Alina Habba filed a petition yesterday for the court to rehear her case. In December, a three-judge panel on the Third Circuit Court...

Third Circuit judges probe ‘unusual’ circumstances of Habba’s appointment

October 20, 2025 2:43 pmOctober 20, 2025 11:49 pm

The Trump administration’s efforts to keep Alina Habba as acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey faced a key test today, as the Third Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments about whether or not to overrule a...