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One of the many controversies the second Trump Administration is facing involves Emil Bove, a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) appointee who — former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni alleges — encouraged colleagues to defy federal court rulings on President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Bove has flatly denied Reuveni's allegations, but on Thursday morning, July 10, Politico journalists Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney reported that Reuveni "has provided Congress with a trove of e-mails and text messages to corroborate his claims" that Bove "crudely discussed defying court orders."
"The newly-released messages reinforce claims by whistleblower Erez Reuveni that Bove played a key role in a decision by Trump Administration immigration officials to turn scores of Venezuelan immigrants over to El Salvador's government despite a U.S. judge's order not to do so," Gerstein and Cheney report. "The messages show increasing alarm among Justice Department lawyers that the (Trump) Administration had in fact defied court orders and that some officials — including a prominent DOJ lawyer brought on by the Trump Administration — could face sanctions for misleading the courts."
According to Gerstein and Cheney, "The disclosures to the Senate Judiciary Committee, requested by the panel's Democrats and shared with Politico, come as the committee prepares to vote on and likely advance Bove's nomination to a seat on the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court...
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