As the U.S. Senate prepares to vote on whether to confirm Emil Bove, a controversial Justice Department official and President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, for a lifetime seat on a Philadelphia-based federal appeals court, a new whistleblower account has emerged raising questions about Bove’s tenure in Washington.
Whistleblower Aid, a nonprofit that says it helps employees seeking to expose wrongdoing, announced last week that it was representing a former Justice Department attorney who had “lawfully disclosed evidence” to the agency’s inspector general about Bove “actively and deliberately undermining the rule of law.”
The organization declined to identify its client, and declined to respond to questions seeking more specifics about the type of evidence the person provided or when they disclosed it.
But in an interview with CNN this weekend, the whistleblower — speaking anonymously — said they provided information to the inspector general in May expressing concerns about how the Justice Department was responding to court orders in an immigration case.
A few weeks after that, in June, another former Justice Department lawyer, Erez Reuveni, filed his own whistleblower complaint containing similar allegations, accusing Bove of saying he was willing to flout judicial orders to fulfill Trump’s mass deportation agenda.
Bove denied those allegations during a confirmation hearing last month before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying: “I did not suggest that there...
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