ALINA HABBA: It's called grandstanding, unfortunately. When you break the law, there’s no grandstanding that will help you. Habba: I can confirm that we have put the Mayor under arrest..

Alina Habba, the Trump lawyer who was dispatched from D.C. to be the interim United States attorney for New Jersey, gave a preview late last week of what can be expected in the coming months from ...

TNR’s Greg Sargent takes a critical look at the day’s political news and the stories leading NewRepublic.com, and speaks to leading journalists and newsmakers.

“Somebody who likes to lose.” Yes, you read that last line right: Alina Habba, President Donald Trump’s firebrand former defense lawyer — the one Trump recently appointed as the temporary ...

Listen to it here. Leah Litman: Thanks for having me. Sargent: Let’s start with Alina Habba, who was previously the president’s personal lawyer, now U.S. attorney in Jersey. She just announced ...

Alina Habba hailed Donald Trump for helping and inspiring women. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images) Alina Habba, a lawyer and senior Trump campaign adviser, said she wanted to take the ...

Alina Habba, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey, said that Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was detained Friday after refusing to leave a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE ...