Attorney Emil Bove looks on as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump appears remotely for a sentencing hearing in front of New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the criminal case in which he was convicted in 2024 on charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, at New York Criminal Court in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., on January 10, 2025.
Angela Weiss | Via Reuters
A fired Department of Justice lawyer says that a top DOJ official Emil Bove — whom President Donald Trump has nominated to become a federal appeals court judge — told department attorneys to consider telling judges “f---k you” and ignoring any court order that barred the Trump administration from deporting immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.
Bove, during a March 14 meeting with the whistleblower, Erez Reuveni and other DOJ attorneys, “stressed to all in attendance that the planes [carrying the immigrants] needed to take off no matter what,” according to a letter Tuesday from Reuveni’s lawyers at the Government Accountability Project.
The letter was sent to the DOJ’s internal watchdog and top members of Congress a day before Bove — who previously acted as Trump’s criminal defense lawyer — is due to appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a confirmation hearing on his nomination to become a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.
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