In a legal challenge that could have sweeping implications for President Donald Trump's picks for top prosecutors across the country, a federal appeals court heard arguments Monday about whether Trump's former defense attorney, Alina Habba, is unlawfully serving as the acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey. A federal judge in August concluded that Habba was serving without legal authority after she ended her 120-day term as interim U.S. attorney without being confirmed by the Senate or securing the support of the federal bench in New Jersey. Through what a federal judge later described as a "novel series of legal and personnel moves," the Trump administration kept Habba, Trump's former personal attorney , in the position by formally withdrawing her nomination then placing her in a role that a

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