‘POLITICAL FOOTBALL’

Trump Freshly Humiliated as Another of His Attorneys Resigns

She announced her resignation on X amid Trump’s push to install loyalist prosecutors.

Delaware’s U.S. attorney Julianne Murray, who President Donald Trump appointed in July, has resigned. The state’s top prosecutor abruptly stepped down on Friday amid the Trump administration’s push to install loyalists as prosecutors across the country. Murray, a former chair of the Delaware Republican Party, made the announcement on a post on X. “I cannot in good conscience allow my office to become a political football,” she said in her statement. She cited a recent ruling in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit disqualified Trump’s pick for U.S. attorney in New Jersey, Alina Habba. Habba resigned on Monday. Trump has railed against a Senate tradition known as the “blue slip,” which allows senators to veto U.S. attorney and judicial nominees for their states. “I naively believed that I would be judged on my performance and not politics,” Murray said. “Unfortunately that was not the case.” She said she would continue to work for the Department of Justice; however, she did not reveal what that role would be. Her first assistant U.S. attorney, Ben Wallace, who has served as a prosecutor in the office since 2023, has been named as her successor.