A federal court delivered President Donald Trump another blow Monday in his efforts to prosecute his political enemies after ruling that Alina Habba – appointed at the behest of Trump as acting U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey – was unlawfully appointed and must vacate her position.

According to Politico reporter Kyle Cheney, the three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, affirmed Monday a previous ruling that disqualified Habba from the position. Habba was appointed in an interim capacity starting in March, though Trump sought to keep her in the job after she filed multiple criminal charges against Democratic officials.

This comes shortly after another Trump-appointed state prosecutor – Lindsey Halligan – was also booted from her role after a court determined her appointment to be unlawful, a decision that sank the Trump administration’s attempt to prosecute former FBI Director James Comey, leaving many in MAGA world

outraged

.