U.S. President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer has stepped down from her post as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey after an appeals court judges panel ruled last week that she was serving unlawfully.

Alina Habba resigned on Monday, while lashing out at the “politicized left” and judges in her state “taking advantage of a flawed blue slip tradition” — a reference to the U.S. attorney nomination process.

Nonetheless, Habba said she was resigning “to protect the stability and integrity” of the office.

“But do not mistake compliance for surrender,” she said, adding she awaits further review of the court hearing while serving as a senior adviser to U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi . “This decision will not weaken the Justice Department and it will not weaken me.”

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