The two most recent rejections came in quick succession over the past two weeks. On Monday, a panel of appeals-court judges upheld a lower court’s ruling that Alina Habba—formerly Trump’s personal lawyer—had no authority to lead the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Office. The Monday before that, a district judge in the Eastern District of Virginia ruled that Lindsey Halligan—also formerly Trump’s personal lawyer—had likewise been unlawfully slotted into the job of chief prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office there.