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Donald Trump's own nominees are being forced to resign, and it's causing the president's former lawyer, herself an appointee, to panic Friday.

Julianne Murray, Trump's Acting US Attorney for the District of Delaware and Special Attorney to the United States Attorney General, announced her resignation early on Friday. She specifically said that she "naively believed" that Trump would be able to keep her in place.

"Unfortunately, that was not the case," she said. "The highly politicized, flawed blue slip tradition is costing Delaware a U.S. Attorney and is affecting the country as a whole."

She added, "Senator Coons and Senator Blunt Rochester refused to return a blue slip for political reasons, not performance reasons."

"This is not about advice and consent," she added. "Because of this incredibly flawed tradition, I wasn't even considered..."...

Alina Habba, acting U.S. attorney for the district of New Jersey, announced Monday that she has resigned and blamed the "politicized left" for the move.

Habba, President Donald Trump's former personal attorney, stepped down after an appeals court ruling found that she was serving in her position unlawfully.

Habba said she resigned to protect “the stability and integrity of the office which I love.”...

A federal appeals court upheld a $1 million penalty against President Donald Trump and his former lawyer Alina Habba for filing a "frivolous" lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey and others.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals found that Trump's 2022 lawsuit – which first came in at 108 pages and then 193 pages in an amended complaint – violated federal court rules with tenuous links between a myriad of defendants and legal claims.

"The district court decided that the amended complaint advanced legal theories foreclosed by precedent 'that the most basic legal research would have revealed,'" reads the 36-page decision....

A Democratic lawmaker facing three counts of assaulting or impeding federal agents argues that the case against her should be thrown out, citing President Donald Trump's own presidential immunity case as the reason why she should have "legislative immunity" — a move that would backfire on the president and leave a "chilling effect."

Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-NJ) is fighting back against the Trump administration and is the "latest opponent of President Trump to try to have controversial federal charges against them" dropped, Politico reports Tuesday. McIver was one of several lawmakers arrested after a protest in May outside a Newark immigration center. She faces up to 17 years in prison if convicted next month at trial.

"Essentially, her lawyers argue members of Congress should have broad legal protection as they carry out oversight duties," according to Politico. ...

The Trump administration employed a shady strategy to ensure it got the Trump-friendly U.S. attorneys it wanted, thanks to a legal "loophole," according to MSNBC's Jen Psaki.

The "blatant" end-run around normal proceedings began with Trump loyalist and personal attorney Alina Habba, who Trump named interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey for a period of 120 days, as stipulated by law.

"After that 120 days were up, judges for the federal district court in New Jersey chose another prosecutor to replace Habba," who was considered unqualified for the position, Psaki wrote....

President Donald Trump appointed his personal lawyer, Alina Habba, to serve as the U.S. Attorney in the New Jersey District, but until she is confirmed, a clock is ticking with limits on her tenure.

On Tuesday, she has been in the office for 120 days. It's the limit.

The New Jersey Globe reported Friday that an internal source for the office said that Habba delivered a message to those in the office, saying that she hopes she can stay. It doesn't seem likely, however. ...