A day ahead of a confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s choice of former defense attorney Emil Bove for a lifetime spot on a federal appeals court, a former Justice Department attorney said Bove had discussed plans to defy potential court orders that may frustrate the president’s deportation plans.
Bove, who was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, has served as a top DOJ official since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term. His confirmation hearing is set for Wednesday.
The allegations, raised publicly by former DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni, will add to what was already expected to be a contentious hearing as Democrats have highlighted concerns about Bove’s role in remaking the Justice Department in Trump’s image.
In a 27-page letter sent Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee from attorneys at the Government Accountability Project representing him, Reuveni said Bove was part of a wide-ranging plan to potentially defy court orders in deportations.
That included a March meeting over planned deportations under Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act, when Bove “stressed to all in attendance that the plans needed to take off no matter what” and that the DOJ “would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’” if ordered to stop deportations.
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