By Sarah N. Lynch

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. District Court Judge on Tuesday disqualified Nevada’s lead federal prosecutor Sigal Chattah from supervising four criminal cases, dealing another setback to President Donald Trump’s administration’s maneuvers to keep his picks in power.

U.S. District Judge David Campbell found that Chattah is not validly serving as acting U.S. Attorney and therefore “her involvement in these cases would be unlawful.”

The Justice Department declined to comment.

Chattah, who had most recently served as Nevada’s chairwoman for the Republican National Committee, was appointed in late March to serve a 120-day stint as interim U.S. attorney.

When her tenure was about to expire around July 26, the Trump administration extended her appointment under a different f

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