WASHINGTON (CN) — The Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican member rejected calls from Democrats to hold a hearing on a whistleblower report that implicated one of President Donald Trump’s nominees for a crucial federal appellate court vacancy.
It was an expected move from Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, who has long criticized his colleagues for undertaking what he’s framed as a smear campaign against Emil Bove, a former federal prosecutor and personal lawyer to the president who has been nominated to the Third Circuit.
Bove, whose appointment to the judicial bench is set to face a key vote in the Judiciary Committee later this week, has come under fire from Democrats following a whistleblower report from a former Justice Department official who claimed the nominee had expressed intent to violate a court order while serving as acting deputy attorney general earlier this year.
The whistleblower, former agency attorney Erez Reuveni, later followed up with a trove of texts and email messages, which he and Democrats say corroborate claims that Bove had suggested the Justice Department may need to tell a federal judge “fuck you” and violate a legal order to carry out the Trump administration’s mass deportation operation.
And Democrats on Tuesday urged Grassley to hold off voting on Bove’s nomination and to invite Reuveni to testify before the Judiciary Committee.
“It is critical that this committee understands the full scope of Mr. Bove’s actions at the Justice Department...
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