Emil Bove, ex-lawyer for Donald Trump, is now a judge. The US Senate confirmed him to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The vote was close, with opposition from Democrats. They raised concerns about his loyalty to Trump. Bove denied any wrongdoing during his confirmation. He will now oversee appeals from Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Emil Bove, who defended Donald Trump in three out of four criminal cases after the US president’s first term, has been confirmed by the US Senate for a lifetime seat on a federal appeals court. In one of the narrowest votes of recent times, the Senate approved Bove’s appointment to the US Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit by 50 votes to 49 on Tuesday evening. Every Democrat opposed the nomination, joined by two Republican senators, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine, according to BBC. Bove, 44, has been described as Trump’s most divisive judicial nominee to date. During confirmation hearings, he pushed back against criticism, saying he was not Trump’s “henchman”, and denied whistleblower accusations that he had urged staff to ignore legal limits or misled members of the Senate. Since Trump returned to office in January, Bove has been working as principal associate deputy attorney general at the US Department of Justice. His time in that role has attracted fresh scrutiny, with Democrats accusing him of overseeing widespread dismissals of prosecutors viewed as insufficiently loyal to the president. Two...
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