Erez Reuveni, a veteran Justice Department official and the fired acting deputy director of the Department of Justice’s immigration section, spoke to 60 Minutes’s Scott Pelley over the weekend.
Reuveni, who had argued for the DOJ on behalf of Trump’s so-called “Muslim ban” during his first term, alleges that top Trump appointees suggested the administration would defy court orders if need be to carry out Trump’s immigration policy and that he was fired after refusing to sign a brief he knew to be factually incorrect.
Reuveni said that Emil Bove, who was the number three at the Justice Department before Trump made him a federal judge, told him and other top DOJ leaders they may need to tell the courts “f*ck you” if the judges tried to stop their deportations to El Salvador.
Reuveni recalled during the interview, “And we were told at this meeting that over the weekend, the president of the United States would be signing a proclamation invoking something called the Alien Enemies Act. This is a wartime law from 1798 invoked three times in the nation’s history, during the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.”
Pelley then explains to the audience, “The Alien Enemies Act allows rapid expulsion from the U.S. of the citizens of enemy nations during a war. But without a declared war, Trump used it against more than 100 Venezuelans that the government said were terrorists. They were to be denied their right to be heard by a judge. Reuveni says Bove expected a challenge.”
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