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Whistleblower says top DOJ official suggested ignoring court orders on deportations
A top official at the Justice Department told subordinates they would need to consider ignoring court orders the day before the administration carried out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, according to a department whistleblower.
In a letter sent to Congress by his attorneys, Erez Reuveni said he and others were told by Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove in very blunt terms that they might have to defy court orders.
Bove told attendees of the March 14 meeting that President Donald Trump would soon be invoking the Alien Enemies Act and that deportations would be carried out that weekend.
"Bove indicated these removals were a priority for the administration and stressed to all in attendance that the planes needed to take off no matter what," according to the letter from Reuveni's attorneys at the Government Accountability Project. A copy of the letter, which was first reported on by The New York Times, was obtained by NBC News.
"Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts 'f--- you' and ignore any such court order," according to the letter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...suggested-ignoring-court-orders-de-rcna214763
We all know who Bove is, right? trump's former defense attorney who was involved in the purge of DoJ and FBI officials who were part of the criminal investigations in to Don.
“The public servants the Department is seeking to remove properly fulfilled their oath to uphold and defend the rule of law. As with any civil servant, FBI employees are afforded statutory and constitutional rights. Therefore, any adverse employment action, including removal, must respect all required standard procedural and substantive due process protections,” attorneys wrote in a letter to Emil Bove, a former Trump defense attorney who is now the DOJ’s acting deputy attorney general.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5124328-trump-administration-purge-fbi/
The question I would ask before the replies of "just a disgruntled guy seeking revenge" come in from defenders of all things Don is.......does what the whistleblower is alleging sound credible? Given all we know, especially considering court orders were in fact ignored and Bove has shown himself to be a loyalist supreme, should what Reuveni has alleged be taken seriously?
Moreover, and this should go without saying, what does it say about trump that he would nominate someone like Bove, a man credibly accused of recommending that court orders be ignored, to the federal bench?
A top official at the Justice Department told subordinates they would need to consider ignoring court orders the day before the administration carried out deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, according to a department whistleblower.
In a letter sent to Congress by his attorneys, Erez Reuveni said he and others were told by Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove in very blunt terms that they might have to defy court orders.
Bove told attendees of the March 14 meeting that President Donald Trump would soon be invoking the Alien Enemies Act and that deportations would be carried out that weekend.
"Bove indicated these removals were a priority for the administration and stressed to all in attendance that the planes needed to take off no matter what," according to the letter from Reuveni's attorneys at the Government Accountability Project. A copy of the letter, which was first reported on by The New York Times, was obtained by NBC News.
"Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts 'f--- you' and ignore any such court order," according to the letter.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/ju...suggested-ignoring-court-orders-de-rcna214763
We all know who Bove is, right? trump's former defense attorney who was involved in the purge of DoJ and FBI officials who were part of the criminal investigations in to Don.
“The public servants the Department is seeking to remove properly fulfilled their oath to uphold and defend the rule of law. As with any civil servant, FBI employees are afforded statutory and constitutional rights. Therefore, any adverse employment action, including removal, must respect all required standard procedural and substantive due process protections,” attorneys wrote in a letter to Emil Bove, a former Trump defense attorney who is now the DOJ’s acting deputy attorney general.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5124328-trump-administration-purge-fbi/
The question I would ask before the replies of "just a disgruntled guy seeking revenge" come in from defenders of all things Don is.......does what the whistleblower is alleging sound credible? Given all we know, especially considering court orders were in fact ignored and Bove has shown himself to be a loyalist supreme, should what Reuveni has alleged be taken seriously?
Moreover, and this should go without saying, what does it say about trump that he would nominate someone like Bove, a man credibly accused of recommending that court orders be ignored, to the federal bench?
