The judge appointed by former President Obama who ruled this week that Trump pick Alina Habba lacks the authority to serve as the acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey is a longtime Republican, with membership in the conservative Federalist Society and the National Rifle Association (NRA).

Habba and Attorney General Pam Bondi both have ripped U.S. District Judge Matthew Brann of taking a "rogue" or "activist" position after he ruled Thursday that Habba was unlawfully serving as the Garden State's federal prosecutor through a "novel series of legal and personnel moves."

“Faced with the question of whether Ms. Habba is lawfully performing the functions and........

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