Alina Habba, the lead attorney representing former President Donald Trump in a defamation case brought by journalist E. Jean Carroll, has dropped her questions about whether the judge in the case had a relationship as a “mentor” with Carroll’s attorney.
In her initial letter, Habba wrote to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan with questions about a recent New York Post article claiming that he and Robbie Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, had worked together at the same law firm during the 1990s, reports The Hill.
Carroll’s attorney, who is not related to the judge, threatened sanctions against Habba and said she did not work with him at the firm and did not remember directly interacting with him, as he was a leader at the large firm’s litigation department while she was still a junior associate.
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