A federal judge is set to decide this week if President Donald Trump's appointee Alina Habba is the rightful acting U.S. attorney in New Jersey after the president sidestepped the Senate confirmation process to keep Habba in the job.Judge Matthew Brann did not indicate how he would rule during a hearing on Friday, but he said he would make his decision by the middle of this week. Brann, an Obama appointee serving in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, is presiding over the matter after the chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which covers New Jersey and Pennsylvania, decided the...

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