Alina Habba Announces Investigation Into Democratic Governor: ‘I Want It To Be a Warning for Everybody’
Acting U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba said she is opening an investigation into the state’s governor and attorney general.
Habba, a former personal lawyer and spokesperson for President Donald Trump, appeared on Thursday’s edition of Hannity on Fox News. She slammed Governor Phil Murphy and Attorney General Matt Platkin over their opposition to the administration’s immigration enforcement actions.
Sean Hannity prefaced his interview by relaying a report stating that Murphy and Platkin ordered state police officers not to carry out warrants in a federal database. State police have also been told not to cooperate with federal officials to enforce civil immigration actions unless the police have been ordered to do so by a court.
Habba joined the show and decried the list of “dos and don’ts for his local state law enforcement” that is on the governor’s website and said:
And unfortunately, I will announce on your show tonight, Sean, and I want it to be a warning for everybody that I have instructed my office today to open an investigation into Governor Murphy, to open an investigation into Attorney General Platkin, who was also instructed the state police not to assist any of our federal… agencies under that are under my direction…
That will no longer stand. [U.S. Attorney General] Pam Bondi has made it clear and so has our president that we are to take all criminals, violent criminals and criminals [sic] out of this country and to completely enforce federal law. And anybody who does get in that way in the way of what we are doing, which is not political, it is simply against crime, will be charged in the state of New Jersey for obstruction, for concealment. And I will come after hard.
Hannity responded by citing the Supremacy Clause and suggested that this provision would perhaps require state and local police to act at the behest of the federal government.
“That’s correct,” his guest replied before bizarrely suggesting that New Jersey police are under her purview. “And let me tell you, to my state officers in New Jersey – some of whom I met with today – I appreciate and respect what you can and cannot do. They don’t have Title VIII authority. I understand that. But what they have been instructed to do by the AG and the governor as is on their website, is to not even make the phone call to I.C.E. when they run the record and see there is a valid warrant and administrative warrant ordering deportation. That is putting the people in my state in jeopardy.”
Habba concluded, “And if you did commit a crime, if you ordered obstruction, if you are ordering concealment and harboring, you will be charged.”
Watch above via Fox News.
