How was your long holiday weekend? Nice? A good time to chill with friends and family, right?
Well, what if the day before your four-day vacation kicked off, you found out that you and your boss are on the hook for close to $1 million in sanctions? And what if, when you came back after that long weekend, you learned that you’re not legally eligible to be in the job that you’ve known you weren’t legally eligible to be in for months?
That’s what happened to Alina Habba.
President Donald Trump tapped Habba as the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, knowing full well that the former parking lot lawyer was not going to be confirmed by the Senate despite having been one of Trump’s dozens of personal attorneys.
Habba had the distinction of being the first—but by no means the last—Trump nomin

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