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By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — President Donald Trump’s effort to install political loyalists as top federal prosecutors has run into a legal buzz saw lately, with judges ruling that his handpicked U.S. attorneys for New Jersey, eastern Virginia, Nevada and Los Angeles were all serving unlawfully.

FILE – New York Attorney General, Letitia James, speaks after pleading not guilty outside the United States District Court Oct. 24, 2025, in Norfolk, Va. (AP Photo/John Clark, File)

Now, another federal judge is poised to consider an argument by New York Attorney General Letitia James that the administration also twisted the law in order to make John Sarcone the acting U.S. attorney for northern New York.

A court hearing is

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