The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Emil Bove, a senior Justice Department official and former personal attorney to President Donald Trump, to the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, as Democrats staged a walkout over what they called an abuse of committee process.
The panel approved Bove and four district court nominees along party lines, moving the Trump administration’s latest slate of judicial picks closer to confirmation. A full Senate vote on Bove could come as early as next week.
President Donald Trump’s former lawyer, Emil Bove, appears in 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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Senate Democrats exited the hearing in protest, claiming Republicans cut off debate and denied them a chance to speak. Sen.
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