Noted attorney Alan Dershowitz said Tuesday on his podcast that the ouster of interim United States Attorney Alina Habba of the District of New Jersey by the district’s judges was “as unconstitutional as anything.

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, a former personal lawyer for President Donald Trump, accused Democrats of using a "smear campaign" in an attempt to oust acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba. As Habba's 120-day appointment as interim U.

In response, Democrats are now thinking of ways to counter. California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Democrats should consider redrawing maps if Texas follows through, because of “the existential threat of what Donald Trump and some of these Republican states are trying to do.”