The Donald Trump administration was tripped up by another legal hurdle Monday when the U.S. president’s former personal lawyer was again disqualified from serving as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor.

A panel of 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges backed a lower-court ruling that found the White House violated the law by using of a series of manoeuvres to install Alina Habba in the position without Senate support.

“Under the government’s delegation theory, Habba may avoid the gauntlet of presidential appointment and Senate confirmation and serve as the de facto U.S. attorney indefinitely,” the three-judge panel wrote, via CNN . “This view is so broad that it bypasses the constitutional (appointment and Senate confirmation) process entirely.”

The court’s ruling dealt another l

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