WASHINGTON (TNND) — President Donald Trump's judicial nominee Emil Bove, who also serves as a top Justice Department official, is once again under scrutiny for allegations that he defied court orders after a fired Justice Department lawyer shared with Congress emails and text exchanges which support the whistleblower's claims.
Last month, Erez Reuveni sent a 27-page letter to the Judiciary Committee in which he accused Bove, who is currently awaiting a Congressional vote to serve on Philadelphia's 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, of blatantly defying Judge James Boasberg's order to halt the deportation flight of 130 Venezuelans to El Salvador which occurred on March 15.
Reuveni's letter was brushed off by top Trump officials and Congressional members as a "disgruntled former employee" seeking to derail Bove's judicial nomination. Bove, himself, denied the allegations waged against him during a June 25 hearing.
“I have never advised a Department of Justice attorney to violate a court order,” Bove told senators. “I did not suggest that there would be any need to consider ignoring court orders. At the point at that meeting, there were no court orders to discuss.”
But these newly released messages reveals that Justice Department lawyers expressed concerned that the administration may have in fact disobeyed Boasberg's orders by proceeding with the flight and then handing over the migrants to El Salvador.
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