By Dan Gooding and Shane CroucherShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberA federal appeals court ruled on Monday that Alina Habba, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump, is disqualified from the role of New Jersey's top federal prosecutor.
The Trump administration had fought to keep Habba as the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey in moves a panel of judges from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in Philadelphia said were illegal.
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