A panel of federal appeals court judges pressed the Trump administration on Monday over its creative use of appointment powers to keep Alina Habba in place as U.S. attorney for New Jersey , a test case that could reshape how presidents install top prosecutors without Senate confirmation.

During more than an hour of arguments before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia, the three-judge panel zeroed in on how the administration extended Habba’s tenure after her four-month interim term expired.

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