Hey Everyone,
Adam and I did our live chat a day early, because he’s in Nashville, Tennessee right now for the Kilmar Abrego Garcia hearing and I encourage you all to follow him on All Rise News. He’ll be doing a live zoom with paid subscribers at 7pm CT. There could be a very dramatic moment if Abrego is released by the judge, only to be detained by ICE.
It’s worth paying close attention to what Adam reports directly from the courtroom. A lot of it doesn’t make it into mainstream news coverage: and you’ll have a much better of understanding, of why, for example, the DOJ’s case against Garcia, claiming he is a gang member of MS-13 is so woefully thin.
Meanwhile: we kicked off yesterday, talking about today’s Senate Confirmation Hearing of former Donald Trump criminal defense attorney Emil Bove, who is up for a Federal judgeship and who was quoted by a whistle-blower literally telling the judiciary: “F—k you.”
That hearing is about to start, so to save time, I’m quoting from Adam’s newsletter to round up what a newly-published whistleblower’s report says about Bove’s recent actions.
Bove, currently a senior Justice Department official, hopes to be confirmed to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, but his former subordinate Erez Reuveni just went public with allegations that he urged prosecutors to flout court orders in his quest to advance Trump’s immigration agenda.
Reuveni was fired after he admitted in a federal court hearing that Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s expulsion to a terrorism prison in El Salvador was a mistake. The ex-Justice Department attorney sent his explosive report to the leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on Tuesday — and forwarded copies to the Justice Department’s inspector general and the Office of the Special Counsel.
The profane quotation came in a section of the report describing a Justice Department meeting before an Alien Enemies Act hearing in March before U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who would later order the flights to El Salvador to turn back to the United States.
At the time, the Trump administration ignored the order, and Reuveni says that was by design.
“Bove then made a remark concerning the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated. Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘f—k you’ and ignore any such court order,” the 35-page report states, leaving the word unredacted in original. “Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room. Mr. Reuveni and others were quickly ushered out of the room. Notwithstanding Bove's directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that DOJ would tell DHS to follow all court orders.”
“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 ‘f—k you,’” it continues.
Bove is slated to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday at 10:15 a.m. Eastern Time.
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is Bove’s current boss and was his co-counsel in the Trump criminal cases, denied the allegations and attacked the New York Times for their reporting on the clearly newsworthy document. The Justice Department impugns Reuveni as a disgruntled former employee, but Reuveni notes that he vocally defended Trump’s immigration policies during his first term. He also says that he has evidence backing up his account.
Even before the release of the report, Bove would have faced sharp scrutiny for the rush of resignations from federal prosecutors who said that he pressured them to take politically motivated or unjustified actions in the cases of New York City Mayor Eric Adams or investigation into green banks awarded grants under Biden’s signature Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Read the whistle-blower report in full here.
Ok, so tune in for that confirmation hearing.
And also do follow Adam in Nashville!
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