Court Upholds Disqualification of Trump’s Top New Jersey Prosecutor

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: A state commission awards licenses to three proposals for casinos in New York City. And Newell Brands, the maker of Yankee Candle and Sharpie, will lay off about 10% of its employees. Pierre Bienaimé hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:23.6	HelloVet.
0:30.6	Here's your midday brief for Monday, December 1st.
0:33.9	I'm Pierre Bien-A for the Wall Street Journal.
0:36.5	An appeals court has ruled that Alina Haba can't serve as the acting U.S. attorney in New
0:41.5	Jersey.
0:42.7	The three-judge court's unanimous decision is the first time a federal appeals court has weighed
0:46.9	in on the Trump administration's maneuvers to keep some of its top prosecutors in place past
0:51.7	the end of their temporary authorization.
0:57.6	U.S. attorneys typically must be nominated and then confirmed by the Senate.
1:01.0	The Justice Department didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
1:04.2	The department could ask the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case.
1:07.7	New York City will get three mega casinos.
1:12.3	A state commission today awarded licenses to Metz owner Steve Cohen and two other proposals to open casinos in a city that until now was largely off limits. Cohen and Hard Rock have
1:18.5	proposed building a casino next to the Mets City Field in Queens. The other two projects are a
1:23.6	proposal by Bollies to develop a casino next to its golf course in the Bronx,
1:33.8	and a proposal by Genting Group to change a queen's location focused on slots into a full-fledged casino.
1:38.9	The decision follows a year's long saga to distribute three downstate casino licenses that once involved close to a dozen contenders.
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