Documents shared Thursday provide new details about Trump administration efforts to run around a court order to ground flights carrying migrants to a Salvadoran prison, as well as Department of Justice (DOJ) leader Emil Bove’s directive to be prepared to tell the courts “f— you” on the matter.
Bove, the principal associate deputy attorney general whom President Trump has nominated for a lifetime appointment as an appeals court judge, told Congress he doesn’t recall using the expletive.
The trove of documents offers greater detail about the Trump administration’s response to an order to block the flights that has since sparked a contempt inquiry. And it also shows multiple instances of various Trump administration officials pushing to label Kilmar Abrego Garcia as a “leader of MS-13” despite issues finding evidence to back the assertion. At one point an official pledged to “keep looking” for evidence to back the claim.
Shared by a Justice Department whistleblower and released by Senate Judiciary Democrats, the documents show multiple references among DOJ employees to Bove’s expletive-laden directive as well as a series of emails directing agencies in real time to return or ground any flights headed to the Central American nation.
Justice Department attorney-turned-whistleblower Erez Reuveni was fired after he disclosed in a related case that Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to the same prison due to an administrative error.
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