Whistleblower alleges 3rd circuit nominee Emil Bove suggested ignoring court orders while at DOJ
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Erez Reuveni and was originally published here.
A whistleblower lawyer alleges that he was fired after resisting efforts by the Department of Justice and White House leadership to defy court orders in immigration cases “through lack of candor, deliberate delay and disinformation.”
One of the DOJ officials who suggested defying court orders was Emil Bove, who is facing a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday for his nomination to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, according to fired lawyer Erez Reuveni, who summarized his allegations in a June 24 letter released by the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit whistleblower protection and advocacy organization.
The New York Times broke the news Tuesday. Other publications that followed with stories include Bloomberg Law, Reuters, Politico and Law360.
Reuveni, then the acting deputy director of the DOJ’s Office of Immigration Litigation, is the lawyer who conceded that mistakenly deported Maryland immigrant Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia should not have been deported to El Salvador in Central America.
Reuveni described a March 14 meeting discussing President Donald Trump’s intent to sign a proclamation allowing the deportation of immigrants who are alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. Bove, the principal...
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