Federal criminal proceedings across New Jersey were canceled Monday over questions regarding the authority of the acting U.S. attorney, Alina Habba, who was named to the post by the Trump administration last week, The New York Times reported.

Federal court hearings, grand jury proceedings, plea deals, et al., were all put on hold amid a challenge to Habba’s authority to serve as acting U.S. attorney. A drug trial that was set to begin in Camden, New Jersey, on Aug. 4 was moved to Pennsylvania after a lawyer for one of the defendants filed a motion last week claiming Habba’s appointment was unconstitutional.

“I’ve never seen anything like this,” Maria Noto, former president of the Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers of New Jersey, told the Times. “It seems as if anyone who had anything scheduled has heard that whatever proceeding they had had been adjourned with no new date for now.”

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