More controversy than usual has erupted over one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, Emil Bove, who served last year as one of Trump’s personal defense attorneys, currently serves as a top official at the Justice Department, and has been selected for a lifetime appointment to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.
More than 900 former DOJ attorneys and officials sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that urged members to reject Bove’s nomination as a circuit court judge, The Hill reported.
Separately, more than 75 former federal and state judges have similarly registered their disapproval of Bove with the committee, and Democratic members have predictably fallen in line behind those complaints to fully oppose Trump’s nominee.
Former DOJ attorneys oppose Bove’s nomination
An organization known as Justice Connection sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that expressed alarm over the nomination of Bove, whom they decried as a “leader” of the DOJ leadership’s alleged “assault” on “constitutional principles and institutional guardrails,” along with “grave concern” over the “senseless attacks” against “dedicated career employees” at the department.
The group urged the committee to “rigorously examine” the allegations against Bove, and asserted, “It is intolerable to us that anyone who disgraces the Justice Department would be promoted to one of the highest courts in the land, as it should be intolerable to anyone committed to maintaining our ordered system of justice.”
Those allegations include a whistleblower’s disputed claim that Bove advised DOJ attorneys to defiantly say “f–k you” to adverse court orders. Issues with Bove also include his involvement in dropping the political criminal charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams and his firing of more than 20 DOJ attorneys and FBI officials who’d investigated and prosecuted Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants.
“Emil Bove has been an architect and enforcer of many of the attacks on DOJ and its employees,” Justice Connection’s executive director and founder, Stacey Young, said of the nominee. “His nomination to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals sent shockwaves across DOJ’s workforce, and should alarm all Americans concerned about the Department’s future and the survival of the rule of law.”
Former judges oppose the nominee
Concurrent with that letter from the former DOJ attorneys and officials, Axios reported on a similar letter sent to the Senate Judiciary Committee by a collective of more than 75 former federal and state judges that also firmly opposed Bove’s nomination to be a circuit court judge.
The judges’ letter likewise called out Bove’s alleged “egregious record” of advising defiance of court orders and decried his firing of DOJ attorneys who worked on Jan. 6 cases as “disqualifying” and “reprehensible.”
“These are not actions of someone committed to equal justice under the law,” the judges said. “Rather, they reflect a troubling pattern of abusing prosecutorial discretion to shield political allies.”
The judges also took issue with President Trump’s announcement of Bove’s nomination in late May, in which he wrote on Truth Social that Bove “will end the Weaponization of Justice, restore the Rule of Law, and do anything else that is necessary to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
They claimed that it was “deeply inappropriate” for a president to nominate one of his personal defense attorneys to a federal judgeship, and said of the president’s announcement, “That statement underscores the peril of confirming a nominee whose principal qualification appears to be personal loyalty to the president.”
Committee Republicans vote to approve Bove
According to a series of NBC News updates, Bove’s nomination was advanced out of the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday morning, albeit not without more controversy, as only the Republican members cast favorable votes while all of the Democrats walked out and refused to participate in protest of the nominee.
It is unclear when Bove’s nomination will be brought to the floor for a full Senate vote, nor whether the media-fueled allegations or the dispute over his advancement will succeed in convincing more than three Republican senators to vote against the president’s nominee.
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