Whistleblower's texts suggest Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove urged lawyer to defy court order
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A week before an expected committee vote on the controversial nomination of Trump ally Emil Bove for a federal judgeship, CBS News has obtained emails and text messages shared with Congress by a whistleblower who accuses Bove of unethical actions while he was a top Justice Department official this year.
The messages are expected to be released Thursday by Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats who are trying to defeat Bove's nomination for a judicial appointment to the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. The text and email messages allegedly offer new insight into the administration's response to its mistaken deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from Maryland to El Salvador on March 15.
The whistleblower is former Justice Department attorney Erez Reuveni, who was fired April 11, after more than 14 years at the agency, when department leadership accused him of presenting an insufficiently vigorous argument on behalf of the Trump administration during Abrego Garcia's court proceedings.
