Desiree Lee Grace was appointed by New Jersey district court judges to replace Trump’s former personal attorney, Alina Habba, who reportedly lacks the votes to be formally confirmed by the Senate as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

President Trump’s war with the judiciary escalated Tuesday with the firing of an attorney named by federal judges to replace Alina Habba, the loyalist he tapped as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.

Like much of what Trump touches, the fight over Alina Habba mingles authoritarianism with goonish incompetence.

Bondi blasted the federal judges as "politically minded" after they named Desiree Leigh Grace to replace Habba.

Federal judges appointed Desiree Leigh Grace to replace Habba before U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi fired her.

A constitutional contest is brewing over the role of judges in selecting federal prosecutors.

Attorney General Pam Bondi on Tuesday fired a federal prosecutor whom New Jersey's federal judges had named to replace the state's interim U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, a close ally of President Donald Trump.