Lawyers for Erez Reuveni, who had himself been a longtime immigration lawyer at the Justice Department before being fired in April, on Tuesday sent a whisteblower disclosure letter alleging multiple instances of misconduct at the Justice Department since the start of the Trump administration.
This included an explosive claim that Emil Bove, a senior Justice Department official who is now a Trump appellate judicial nominee, told attendees at a key meeting that DOJ might need to tell the courts “fuck you” if they tried to block Alien Enemies Act-based deportations.
The disclosure letter was directed to several relevant governmental officials, including congressional Judiciary Committee leaders, and came the day before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on Bove’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
The disclosure was first reported by The New York Times, which posted the lawyers’ letter in full. Law Dork also obtained a copy of the letter.
Bove, President Donald Trump’s former criminal defense lawyer, has held several senior positions in the Justice Department in recent months, and is named 20 times Reuveni’s disclosure.
In response to the disclosure and New York Times report, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, another of Trump’s former criminal defense lawyers, said the events described in Reuveni’s disclosure were “falsehoods” released as part of a “false hit piece” targeting Bove due to his judicial nomination:
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