Senate Republicans confirmed Emil Bove, one of President Donald Trump’s former attorneys, to a lifetime federal judgeship despite multiple whistleblowers alleging that he urged Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to ignore court orders.

The Senate voted 50-49 to confirm Bove to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit. Only Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine) voted with Democrats against Bove’s nomination.

Bove’s confirmation comes after a former DOJ attorney alleged in a complaint to lawmakers that Bove, a senior official in the deputy attorney general’s office, suggested that the department could ignore court orders to carry out Trump’s aggressive deportations.

Erez Reuveni, a veteran DOJ attorney who was fired earlier this year, said that Bove allegedly told subordinates they may have to tell courts “f*** you” to fly hundreds of people from the U.S. to a Salvadoran megaprison called CECOT after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act (AEA), an 18th-century wartime law.

Bove, who has been described by former prosecutors as Trump’s “hatchet man” in the department, has denied the claim that he pushed to ignore court orders.

Reuveni later released a trove of text and email exchanges between him and his colleagues and supervisors within the DOJ and officials from other agencies to back up his allegations. In the exchanges, officials repeatedly reference Bove’s alleged “f*** you” remark. They appear alarmed that the Trump administration...

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