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Alina Habba snapped back at Senate lawmakers on Sunday, asserting she "won’t be intimidated," days after a federal judge ruled her appointment as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey was unlawful.

At the center of the fight is the Senate’s blue slip tradition — a bipartisan custom, applied to both federal judges and U.S. attorneys, that allows home-state senators to signal or withhold approval for the president’s picks.

President Donald Trump has argued the practice prevents "great Republican candidates" from receiving fair consideration by enabling Democrats to obstruct his appointments.

"This tradition that Sen. [Chuck] Grassley is upholding effectively prevents anybody in a blue state from going through to the Senate t

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