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Alina Habba’s ‘weird’ letter bemoaning a decades-old work relationship between E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer and the judge who oversaw former President Donald Trump’s civil defamation trial didn’t do the much-maligned lawyer any favors, a new legal analysis contends. Former prosecutor Jordan Rubin raised a serious eyebrow Tuesday at Habba’s letter accusing Judge Lewis Kaplan of concealing his mentorship of attorney Roberta Kaplan, at a white-shoe law firm about 30 years ago. “She does a weird thing there,” Rubin writes. “Habba’s effort may hurt her in the long run.” Want more breaking political new…