The post GOP senator fires back after Trump rages over Alina Habba snub appeared first on Salon.com. In Donald Trump’s long-running feud with federal judges, the president has found some support in an unlikely place: the nation’s highest court.

Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley is holding firm against pressure from President Donald Trump to upend a Senate practice partly responsible for blocking Alina Habba from securing confirmation as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.

Alina Habba is not backing down. Days after a federal judge ruled that her appointment as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey was unlawful, she appeared on television to declare that she “won’t be intimidated” by Senate leaders or the long-standing tradition they are defending.