On Thursday, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, the most senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced a new wrinkle for President Donald Trump’s latest federal appeals court nominee, Emil Bove.
Shortly before Bove’s confirmation hearing last month, a former Justice Department immigration lawyer, Erez Reuveni, submitted a whistleblower report, claiming, among other damning allegations, that in a March 14 meeting, Bove — the current principal associate deputy attorney general — suggested colorfully that the Justice Department would have to resist court orders that impeded the administration’s efforts to deport noncitizens.
By the time he appeared before the committee, however, the former Trump defense lawyer was hardly bowed. With carefully phrased responses alongside a handful of “I don’t recall” answers, Bove mostly denied Reuveni’s allegations, and no Republican senator seemed particularly troubled.
But Durbin on Thursday released Reuveni’s emails, text messages and even phone records that Reuveni says support the narrative in his 27-page complaint. Those documents, available here and here, are highly revelatory of the Trump administration’s good faith and veracity — or lack thereof — in courts thus far and should have an impact beyond Bove’s nomination.
They reveal, for example, how Reuveni and other career Justice Department lawyers drafting briefs and making court appearances were ignored as they attempted to obtain information and assurances from other...
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