A disgruntled DOJ lawyer recently fired for apologizing to an Obama judge overseeing the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case dropped an eleventh-hour hit piece on Trump’s Third Circuit Court nominee Emil Bove.
Emil Bove is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday for his nomination to the Third Circuit Court so an angry DOJ lawyer launched an attack on his so-called proposal to defy court orders.
In April, Erez Reuveni, a senior DOJ immigration lawyer, was fired after he apologized to a federal judge and appeared unprepared for the hearing in the case of an MS-13 gang member deported to El Salvador’s prison.
Obama judge Paula Xinis previously ordered the Trump Administration to return MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
“This was an illegal act,” Judge Paula Xinis told a Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni according to Politico. “Congress said you can’t do it, and you did it anyway.”
Reuveni repeatedly apologized to the judge during the hearing and apologized for the Trump Administration’s actions.
“I am also frustrated that I have no answer for you on a lot of these questions,” said Erez Reuveni. “The government made a choice here to produce no evidence.”
Now Reuveni is attacking Trump’s nominee to the Florida-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
According to a 27-page letter submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee through Reuveni’s, lawyers, Emil Bove, the principal associate deputy attorney general, said during a mid-March meeting that the Trump Administration would ignore court orders from radical judges if they interfered with President Trump’s immigration policies.
“Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such court order,” Reuveni’s attorneys wrote in the 27-page complaint first reported by The New York Times. “Mr. Reuveni was stunned by Bove’s statement because, to Mr. Reuveni’s knowledge, no one in DOJ leadership — in any Administration — had ever suggested the Department of Justice could blatantly ignore court orders, especially with a ‘fuck you.’”
Politico reported:
A top Justice Department official who has been nominated for a federal judgeship suggested to colleagues that the administration would defy court orders in order to carry out President Donald Trump’s aggressive plan for mass deportations, according to a whistleblower letter submitted by another attorney who was present.
The official, Emil 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.
Reuveni said the episode was followed by a series of attempts by DOJ officials to thwart court orders in at least three immigration-related cases. When Reuveni urged his colleagues to correct course, he says he was “threatened, fired and publicly disparaged.”
Reuveni submitted the 27-page letter through his attorneys Tuesday to the House and Senate judiciary committees and DOJ’s inspector general. It was first reported by The New York Times.
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