More Than 900 Former DOJ Attorneys Condemn Trump Court Pick Emil Bove
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“It is intolerable to us that anyone who disgraces the Justice Department would be promoted to one of the highest courts in the land,” they wrote to senators.
WASHINGTON – In a stunning rebuke of President Donald Trump’s judicial nominee Emil Bove, more than 900 former Justice Department attorneys on Wednesday condemned Bove’s “assault” on DOJ employees and urged senators to “rigorously examine” his record before considering voting for him.
“We, the undersigned, proudly defended the rule of law as attorneys at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ),” reads a letter to Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the chairman and ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, along with every other committee member.
“We are all alarmed by DOJ leadership’s recent deviations from constitutional principles and institutional guardrails,” they said. “We also share a grave concern over the senseless attacks on the dedicated career employees who are the backbone of the Department.”
“Emil Bove has been a leader in this assault,” they charged.
The former DOJ attorneys say senators need to take seriously the allegations facing Bove: former senior DOJ attorney Erez Reuveni claimed in a whistleblower disclosure that Bove, who is currently associate deputy U.S. attorney general, earlier this year told DOJ attorneys to disobey court orders and say “fuck you” to judges who ruled against them.
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