New Delhi, Dec. 1 -- Donald Trump's former personal attorney Alina Habba, has been disqualified from serving as attorney for New Jersey, a federal appeals court in the US ruled on Monday. Calling Habba a "tireless advocate for justice" in his statement last year and who had been "unwavering in her loyalty," Trump had named Habba as interim US attorney in March

On Monday, 1 December, a three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals determined that Habba was unlawfully appointed as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey and disqualified her from supervising cases.

Alina Habba, 40, was previously a little-known litigator who came to represent Trump in some of his most perilous cases, notably clashing with a j...