Vexed by the Justice Department’s chaotic oversight of federal prosecutions in New Jersey, a judge on Monday threw a government attorney out of a hearing and ordered the three officials in charge of the state’s U.S. Attorney’s office to answer his questions under oath.
U.S. District Judge Zahid N. Quraishi lit into prosecutors after another judge ruled last week that the Trump administration’s decision to replace interim U.S. Attorney Alina Habba with a trio of officials was another violation of the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, which requires Senate confirmation.
I mean, he blocked their case and indicated that even the replacements aren’t legally allowed to sign off on any future prosecutions. This does slow things down
It does more than that, it puts a big ole asterisk next to everything they’ve had any association with and will make it much easier for people to avoid charges they helped bring.