PHILADELPHIA — The Trump administration's maneuvers to keep the president's former lawyer Alina Habba in place as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor were illegal and she is disqualified, a federal appeals court said Monday.

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A federal appeals court says the Trump administration's maneuvers to keep President Donald Trump's ex-lawyer Alina Habba as New Jersey's top federal prosecutor were illegal and she's disqualified

A panel of judges from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sitting in Philadelphia sided with a lower court judge's ruling Monday after hearing oral arguments at which Habba herself was present Oct. 20

The ruling comes amid the push by Trump's Republican administration to keep Habba as the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, a powerful post charged

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