A whistleblower complaint against Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove accuses the Trump administration official of instructing members of the Justice Department to ignore court orders that could have interfered with plans to transfer several planes of undocumented migrants to prisons in El Salvador.
Bove is currently a nominee to become a federal circuit court judge.
According to a whistleblower complaint filed by former DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni and obtained by The New York Times, Bove stated during a March meeting that the Justice Department would need to consider giving a big “fuck you” to the courts if they attempted to interfere with plans to transfer migrants to a foreign prison known for its human rights abuses.
Reuveni represented the DOJ in three cases related to the Trump administration’s crackdown on undocumented immigration, and was fired after admitting in court — where he is required to tell the truth under questioning from a judge — that in April the administration illegally deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran man residing in Maryland who had a protective court order barring his removal to El Salvador. Abrego Garcia, along with hundreds of others, was sent to CECOT, a notorious maximum-security prison and propaganda production center built by El Salvador’s authoritarian President Nayinb Bukele, a strauch Trump supporter.
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