With oral arguments in the near future, a group of 10 former U.S. attorneys weighed in on Alina Habba by backing criminal defendants who maintain that President Donald Trump's former personal attorney was rightly disqualified from prosecuting them due to her unlawful appointment as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey.

With the DOJ set to argue at the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Oct. 20, the ex-U.S. attorneys , including Bill Barr's former supervisor Donald Ayer, Harry Litman , MSNBC legal analyst Barbara McQuade , and Bill Weld , said the U.S. attorney role "should be filled only with experienced and competent personnel," not a "neophyte" learning on the job or otherwise "unfit characters."

Emphasizing that U.S. attorneys "wield broad authorities that can impact the lives, liber

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