Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
I’m not casting aspersions, but most U.S. attorneys have served as assistant U.S. attorneys and held senior roles within those offices—that’s valuable experience.
— Professor Carl W. Tobias of the University of Richmond School of Law, in comments given to the New Jersey Law Journal, on Alina Habba’s appointment as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey. William Maderer, special counsel at Saiber who once served as chief of the New Jersey USAO’s special prosecution division, echoed Tobias’s concerns, saying, “She has virtually no experience in federal civil law, and she has zero experience in federal criminal law. It’s very disconcerting.”
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