Federal Prosecutor Launches Probes of New Jersey Governor, Attorney General

The acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey has opened investigations into the state’s governor and attorney general for allegedly refusing to cooperate with federal immigration officials. “I want it to be a warning for everybody that I have instructed my office today to open an investigation into Gov. [Phil ] Murphy, to open an investigation into Attorney General [Matthew] Platkin, who has also instructed the state police not to assist any of our federal … agencies that are under my direction,” acting U.S. Attorney Alina Habba announced on April 10 during an appearance on Fox News. “Pam Bondi has made it clear, and so has our president, that we are to take all … violent criminals and criminals out of this country and to completely enforce federal law. And anybody who does get … in the way of what we are doing—which is not political, it is simply against crime—will be charged in the state of New Jersey for obstruction, for concealment, and I will come after them hard.”...