Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said Tuesday that the panel will proceed with a scheduled vote on Emil Bove’s nomination this week, rejecting Democrats’ calls for a second hearing to investigate whistleblower claims that President Donald Trump‘s judicial nominee encouraged Department of Justice lawyers to defy court orders.
Reuveni, who was later fired from the DOJ, claims Bove suggested during a March 14 meeting that DOJ attorneys could tell judges “f*** you” if courts tried to block deportations to El Salvador.
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyer Emil Bove appears in the State Supreme Court in Manhattan on Thursday, April 25, 2024, in New York. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times via AP, Pool)
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Despite that claim, Grassley said the committee would not deviate from precedent and
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