{"id":8921,"date":"2026-01-14T09:07:43","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2026-01-14T09:07:43","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:07:43","slug":"trump-appointed-attorney-for-delaware-abruptly-quits-cites-flawed-blue-slip-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8921","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Appointed Attorney For Delaware Abruptly Quits, Cites Flawed \u2018Blue Slip\u2019 Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s U.S. attorney in Delaware has stepped down following a court ruling that found Alina Habba was unlawfully serving as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Julianne Murray, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Delaware, submitted her resignation on Friday. In a public statement, Murray defended her tenure and emphasized that she had not acted to advance political interests while in office, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/YbqLe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Washington Examiner reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI naively believed that I would be judged on my performance and not politics. Unfortunately, that was not the case,\u201d Murray wrote, blaming the \u201chighly politicized, flawed blue slip tradition\u201d for cutting her interim tenure short.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSenator Coons and Senator Blunt Rochester refused to return a blue slip for political reasons, not performance reasons,\u201d she added. \u201cThis is not about advice and consent. Because of this incredibly flawed tradition, I wasn\u2019t even considered by the Judiciary Committee, let alone the entire Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray, a former chairwoman of the Delaware Republican Party, <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativebrief.com\/trump-hit-with-setback-97111\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">referenced the ruling<\/a> that led to Habba\u2019s removal in explaining her own decision to resign. She said stepping down was necessary to preserve confidence in the rule of law and the integrity of the Justice Department\u2019s appointment process.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8801\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8801\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8801\" src=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-297x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-297x300.jpeg 297w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-1012x1024.jpeg 1012w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-768x777.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-80x80.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1.jpeg 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s U.S. attorney in Delaware has stepped down following a court ruling that found Alina Habba was unlawfully serving as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey. Julianne Murray, the acting U.S. attorney&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8922,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions\/8922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}