The Trump administration is appealing a judge’s recent ruling that Alina Habba has unlawfully served as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor since July 1.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi vowed last week to challenge U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann’s ruling, just hours after it was filed, and she officially did so in a one-page notice of appeal Monday.

Habba, President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, didn’t wait for things to be official. She went on the offensive Sunday on Fox News, bashing a U.S. Senate tradition known as “blue slips,” which allows senators to block judicial and U.S. attorney nominees in their home states from advancing. Trump on Monday threatened to sue to end the century-old practice.

New Jersey’s two U.S. senators, Democrats Cory Booker and Andy Kim, have crit

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