More than 900 former Justice Department employees are urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject President Donald Trump’s nominee for a federal appeals court seat, calling him unfit for the bench.
A former senior Justice Department attorney has accused top officials of discussing plans to defy federal court orders to advance the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, according to a whistleblower complaint filed Tuesday.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Emil Bove, his former criminal defense attorney and a controversial figure in the Justice Department, to a seat on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Emil Bove has a reputation for bulldozing through norms
A high-ranking Justice Department official who once helped lead the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is now spearheading an effort to identify and scrutinize the very prosecutors and FBI agents who worked on those cases.
