Caught on a hot mic, US President Donald Trump exploded: 'I can't appoint anybody;' a moment that crystallises a growing fight over the Senate's century-old 'blue slip' practice and the legal rebuke that forced his chosen New Jersey prosecutor to quit.
The comment came as Trump departed a Rose Garden event after the Third Circuit upheld a district court finding that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to Trump, had been unlawfully serving as the acting United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
