By ELI OKUN
07/10/2025 01:37 PM EDT
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JUDGE FOR YOURSELF: Ahead of next week’s high-stakes Senate committee vote on Emil Bove for a federal judgeship, whistleblower Erez Reuveni is prompting new — and sharply denied — questions about whether the top Justice Department official raised the specter of a constitutional crisis.
The details: Reuveni, a career attorney who was fired after saying in court that the administration had accidentally deported someone, has given Congress new batches of documents (see them here and here) to back up his allegations against Bove, POLITICO’s Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney report. The messages center on the Alien Enemies Act case of Venezuelans deported to El Salvador, in which the administration has repeatedly pushed legal boundaries. They “show increasing alarm among Justice Department lawyers that the administration had in fact defied court orders” not to send the men (who remain disappeared), reinforcing Reuveni’s claims, Josh and Kyle write.
Going public: In his first interviews, Reuveni tells NYT’s Devlin Barrett that he’s willing to testify. He warns that Bove and President Donald Trump’s Justice Department have presided over “a degradation of the principles of honesty to the courts that have long guided the Justice Department … [and] a deliberate strategy of deceiving and disregarding federal judges,” Barrett writes. “Trump 1.0, they didn’t say ‘Fuck you’ to the...
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