WASHINGTON, July 29, 2025 – The Department of Justice says it “lost” a key whistleblower complaint documenting Emil Bove’s contempt for the rule of law and found it again just yesterday – a period of more than two months in which Bove was nominated to serve as a federal appeals judge and cleared the Senate judiciary committee pending a final vote.
The DOJ’s Office of Inspector General, responsible for conducting internal investigations, received an online copy of the complaint from Whistleblower Aid on May 2 and signed in a couriered copy three days later. The disclosure provided documentary evidence that Bove and other senior DOJ officials instructed department lawyers to violate a court order relating to the Trump administration’s immigration deportation policies.
They also directed DOJ lawyers to commit perjury in federal court to cover up the violation, the evidence shows.
Yet the office now says the documents were lost and refound only after Whistleblower Aid presented proof of submission and receipt. Evidence relevant to the Senate’s final vote on the Bove nomination has thus sat unacknowledged for almost three months, foreclosing the possibility of any meaningful investigation into a lifetime judicial appointment.
“We are finding this out now, on the day of Mr. Bove’s confirmation vote,” said Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel Andrew Bakaj. “And that begs the question: What does it take for the Inspector General to do its job and investigate claims as pertinent...
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