Another whistleblower has made claims to the Justice Department’s watchdog that Emil Bove — a top agency official who is now — suggested others in the department could ignore court orders during a contentious legal battle in an immigration case.
The whistleblower, a former DOJ attorney in the Office of Immigration Litigation, told CNN documents have been filed with the DOJ Office of the Inspector General that appear to align with that Bove tried to mislead federal judges during the administration’s aggressive deportation effort this spring.
“I think it would be incredibly dangerous for someone like that to have a lifetime appointment as a federal appellate judge,” the whistleblower said.
These disclosures were filed in May before Erez Reuveni, an immigration law specialist who worked on the case of the mistakenly deported immigrant , made similar claims in a whistleblower letter in June. Once Reuveini went public, this whistleblower, who worked with Reuveni, decided to publicize on Friday that their own disclosure had been made to the DOJ inspector general ahead of Bove’s Senate confirmation vote.
CNN has not independently reviewed the documents submitted by this whistleblower. News of the latest disclosure comes days before Bove, a former personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, is set to receive a final Senate vote to be confirmed for a lifetime appointment to an appellate judgeship.
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