Allies of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s criminal defense lawyer who Trump nominated to the federal bench, are trying to discredit a whistleblower as a “disgruntled former employee,” but several character witnesses aren’t buying it.
Former Justice department attorney Erez Reuveni claims Bove proposed ignoring court orders in March while administration lawyers strategized over legal challenges to Trump’s plan to assert wartime powers to deport immigrants. Reuveni was fired from the Justice Department in April.
Reuveni disclosed a March meeting inside the Justice Department, shortly before Trump formally declared he would invoke the Alien Enemies Act to rev up deportations. At the meeting, Reuveni said, Bove "stressed to all in attendance that the planes need to take off no matter what." Bove then said that the group may need to consider telling judges "f——— you" and ignore possible court orders blocking immigrants from being removed from the U.S., according to the document.
In his own testimony, Bove describes Reuveni as a member of an “unelected bureaucracy” trying to subvert the will of the president. But Jon O. Newman, a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, described Reuveni to Politico writer Ankush Khardori as “a very intelligent, conscientious, hard-working lawyer.” Reuveni clerked for Newman out of law school.
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