A Justice Department whistleblower has disclosed communications reinforcing his allegations that senior DOJ official and judicial nominee Emil Bove coordinated to defy court orders in various deportation matters.
Following up on his June 24 whistleblower complaint, terminated DOJ litigator Erez Reuveni provided text exchanges to the Senate Judiciary Committee referencing his accusation that Bove said the government “would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such court order” that would stop the Trump administration from deporting immigrants to a Salvadoran prison under a wartime statute.
“Guess we are about to say fuck you to the court"—"Super,” Reuveni, a veteran immigration attorney, texted his supervisor, August Flentje, according to a trove of documents released Thursday by the top Democrat on the committee.
Flentje—who like Reuveni is a longtime career attorney—replied, “Well Pamela Jo Bondi is,” and “Not you.”
The texts, which respond to the Democratic lawmaker’s request for information substantiating Reuveni’s whistleblower complaint, are time-stamped on March 15. That was just as Reuveni and Flentje learned two flights were headed to El Salvador with passengers that a federal judge had already ordered the government to keep on US soil.
Bove testified at his confirmation hearing last month that he has “never advised a Department of Justice attorney to violate a court order.”
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