WASHINGTON — Emil Bove, who is deputy attorney general and one of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees, told Justice Department lawyers to say “fuck you” to judges who ruled against them, according to a complaint filed by ex-DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni.
Senior Justice Department lawyers, led by Bove, deliberately lied to federal judges and disobeyed their orders in the case involving the removal of hundreds of immigrants to a prison in El Salvador, according to a whistleblower complaint shared with Congress. The complaint was first reported by The New York Times.
The complaint filed by Reuveni, a highly praised career Justice Department lawyer who was fired after truthfully stating in court that the administration had wrongfully removed Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador, alleges that “high level governmental personnel knowingly and willfully defied court orders, directed their subordinate attorneys to make misrepresentations to courts, and engaged in scheme to withhold relevant information from the court to advance the Administration’s priority of deporting noncitizens.” Reuveni is represented by Dana Gold and Andrea Meza of the Government Accountability Project, a nonprofit whistleblower legal group.
Bove, whom Trump has nominated for a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, was the leader of this scheme within DOJ, according to Reuveni. At a meeting of senior DOJ leadership convened to discuss the Alien Enemies Act removals, Bove...
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