Former President Donald Trump’s attorney Alina Habba is backing off from an accusation that Lewis Kaplan, the judge who presided over the E. Jean Carroll defamation trial, has a conflict of interest with the defense, reported NBC News. “Habba on Monday filed a letter with the court citing a New York Post story that said U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan and Carroll attorney Roberta Kaplan, who are not related, had worked at the major law firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in the 1990s,” said the report. “An unidentified former partner at the firm, which employs around 1,000 lawyers, …