Emil Bove, the Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States, has been accused by a former Department of Justice employee of proposing that the Trump Administration defy court orders to enable the plan for mass deportations to continue.
Bove was nominated by President Donald Trump for a seat on the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. If confirmed, he would hold a lifetime appointment on the bench with jurisdiction over appeals from Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and the Virgin Islands.
According to various sources, Bove proposed ignoring court orders as administration lawyers strategized in March over expected legal challenges to the president’s plan to assert wartime powers to rapidly deport some immigrants, according to the account from Erez Reuveni, who was fired from his Justice Department post in April.
Bove was accused in Reuveni’s whistleblower complaint of using a “lack of candor, deliberate delay and disinformation” to violate injunctions against the Trump administration.
Reuveni had served as the Acting Deputy Director for the Office of Immigration Litigation, responsible for all immigration litigation arising in the U.S. district courts nationwide, before his firing on April 11, 2025 and oversaw multiple high-profile Trump Administration immigration initiatives.
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