Emil Bove, a senior Department of Justice (DOJ) official, suggested the department should tell courts “f*** you” and ignore their orders to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, according to a whistleblower complaint by a former DOJ attorney.
Filed by Erez Reuveni, a veteran DOJ attorney who was fired earlier this year, the whistleblower complaint alleges that department officials defied court orders and misled federal judges on several occasions.
Reviewed and published by the New York Times, Reuveni’s 27-page complaint was sent to lawmakers and the Justice Department inspector general Tuesday on Reuveni’s behalf by the Government Accountability Project.
Trump last month nominated Bove to serve as a life-tenured judge on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Bove, who defended Trump when he was convicted of criminal charges over hush money paid to a porn star, is set to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday for a hearing over his nomination.
Reuveni stated that Bove and other DOJ and White House officials sought to defy federal court orders “through lack of candor, deliberate delay and disinformation” over the course of three weeks in three separate cases.
He further alleged that he witnessed instances of senior DOJ officials engaging in wrongdoing by ignoring court orders, presenting legal arguments with no basis in law and misrepresenting facts presented before courts.
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