‘Akin to Watergate’: Trump nominee Emil Bove told DOJ lawyers to ignore court rulings
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client Erez Reuveni and was originally published here.
Emil Bove III, a senior Justice Department official, proposed defying court orders to satisfy President Donald Trump’s extreme mass deportation plan, according to a department whistleblower.
In a 27-page letter submitted via his attorneys to the House and Senate judiciary committees and the DOJ’s inspector general, the whistleblower, Erez Reuveni, recalled Bove’s suggestions to defy court orders. Reuveni was the acting deputy director of the Justice Department’s Office of Immigration Litigation before his termination in April.
In the meeting with DOJ officials on March 14, Bove indicated that Trump would soon invoke the Alien Enemies Act so that planes deporting migrants without due process would take off that weekend. Reuveni’s account – first reported by The New York Times – says that Bove “stressed to all in attendance that the planes needed to take off no matter what.”
With the possibility of court orders halting the takeoffs, Bove suggested, “that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘f**k you’ and ignore any such court order.” Reuveni says that he and others in the room were “stunned,” and exchanged “awkward, nervous glances.”
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