President Donald Trump appears to have found a way to circumvent the Senate and keep his embattled former personal attorney and partisan sidekick in power as the top prosecutor in New Jersey.
In March, Trump nominated Alina Habba, 41, to serve as U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey—a role that requires Senate confirmation—and appointed her as the interim U.S. attorney while the Senate considers her nomination.
That nomination, however, has stalled in the Senate over her partisan crusading, and her 120-day interim appointment was supposed to expire this week after a panel of federal judges voted not to extend it.
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