President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Alina Habba said Monday she will no longer serve as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey in the wake of an appeals court ruling that found her appointment was unlawful.

In a statement on X , Habba wrote that “as a result of the Third Circuit’s ruling, and to protect the stability and integrity of the office which I love, I have decided to step down in my role as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.”

She said people should “not mistake compliance for surrender.”

In a separate statement on X, Attorney General Pam Bondi said she was "saddened to accept Alina's resignation."

Bondi said that the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling had made it "untenable for her to effectively run her office" and that she was naming Habba a

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