Chuck cut off debate in the Judiciary Comm. in order to ram Bove's nomination thru the committee despite..........
900 DOJ attorneys urge Senate to reject Bove nomination
More than 900 former Justice Department attorneys are urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove for a lifetime judicial appointment.
Bove, who previously served on President Trumpâs criminal defense team, is now in the No. 3 role at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and has been nominated for a judgeship on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
The extraordinary outpouring came from attorneys from the Kennedy administration to the current Trump administration who pinpointed Bove as a key figure behind numerous firings and policy shifts, calling him a âleader in this assaultâ on the Justice Department.
Despite Bove telling DoJ lawyers to ignore court orders.
Whistleblower Documents Implicate Emil Bove in Criminal Contempt Order by Chief Judge Boasberg
A whistleblowerâs documents provided to Congress implicate Emil Bove in the administrationâs violation of a court order that prohibited the transfer of more than 100 Venezuelans to El Salvadorâs CECOT prison. Bove is President Donald Trumpâs nominee to serve as a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on his nomination on July 17.
In April, Chief Judge James Boasberg held there is probable cause that administration officials engaged in criminal contempt by having âwillfully disobeyed a binding judicial decree.â Bove is identified in the whistleblowerâs documents as having played a central role in the conduct of concern. The documents also provide evidence that Bove has seriously misled Congress about his conduct.
The whistleblower is Erez Reuveni, who was a career Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney for nearly 15 years until he was dismissed in April of this year. The documents he has produced to the Senate Judiciary Committee, including emails and text messages, concern the Trump administrationâs controversial decision to transfer Venezuelan nationals to El Salvador on Mar. 15 under the purported authority of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA). The cache of documents, which was first reported by Politico, is important for the following four reasons.
Email released by whistleblower would presumably implicate Bove in the âcontumacious conductâ identified by Chief Judge Boasberg.
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trump is trying to put judges on the bench who will turn a blind eye to cases in which the government responds to court orders by ignoring them.
Whatever claim Grassley had to be respected for doing what is simply the right, ethical thing to do is no longer.