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Defense lawyers had questioned whether Alina Habba, a Trump loyalist, was legally authorized to run the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey.
By Tracey Tully and Jonah E. Bromwich
A federal judge on Thursday ruled that Alina Habba, the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, had been acting without legal authority for more than a month, thrusting the state’s already paralyzed federal court system further into disarray and potentially placing limits on the president’s power to choose his own top federal prosecutors.
