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In en banc news, the Third Circuit on Monday declined to reconsider its decision blocking Alina Habba from serving as acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey, denying the Justice Department's petition for rehearing and leaving intact a decision that sharply curtailed the government's use of creative maneuvers to install interim federal prosecutors.
Since Habba's resignation, Bondi has installed three lawyers to run the U.S. attorney's office. That structure was challenged last week by two other criminal defendants in federal district court.
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