The incident raises questions about the separation of powers, executive authority over justice and the independence of federal prosecutions.

The Trump administration opened a new front in its war with the courts this week — and fired a veteran federal prosecutor in the process — in a dramatic tussle over the New Jersey U.S. Attorney’s Off...

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