TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — President Donald Trump has moved to keep his former defense attorney Alina Habba on the job as the top ...

Habba’s disastrous tenure as a federal prosecutor appeared to be over — until Donald Trump and Pam Bondi came up with a scheme to keep her in place.

It comes after a panel of federal judges in New Jersey declined to extend Habba's term as the state's interim top prosecutor.

With Senate gridlock, judges are tasked with installing U.S. attorneys—and they are rejecting some of the president’s picks.