A U.S. Senate panel on Thursday advanced the nomination of Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer to be a federal appeals court judge over protests from Democrats, who accuse him of using aggressive tactics to enforce the U.S. president’s agenda at the Justice Department.
The hearing devolved into partisan rancor when the panel’s Republican chairman, Chuck Grassley of Iowa, cut off debate on Bove’s nomination. Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey, a Democrat, shouted that Grassley was violating the committee’s rules as Republicans cast their votes.
The other Democrats walked out of the hearing. “This is outrageous that you’re not allowing senators to have their fair say,” Booker told Grassley. “What are you afraid of?” Grassley accused Booker of "obstruction.
Bove’s nomination drew fierce opposition from Democrats and many former Justice Department employees, more than 900 of whom signed a letter accusing him of undermining the integrity of the department.
Huh, has the justice department done something in the last few days inconsistent with the purpose of even having a “justice” department 🤔
Bove’s defenders have pointed to his background as a federal terrorism prosecutor in New York and his work countering drug cartels and other threats. Trump named Bove to a senior post at the Justice Department after he helped defend Trump against three criminal cases brought against him during his years out of power.
Bove is the guy who told his underling lawyers to tell the courts to “fuck you”* on the AEA planes and Kilmar Abrego Garcia. He made Drew Ensign and a couple of others lie to a federal judge, which is a serious problem for a lawyer and officer of the court. I suspect that Joseph Mazzara perjured himself over this stuff, which means that Bove likely suborned perjury.
Bove has absolutely no business getting a lifetime appointment to the federal bench, where he will enjoy judicial immunity.
*Those words are a direct quote from Bove.
Oh didn’t you hear? Wealthy people are above the law, and the congressmen our tax dollars pay to act as safeguards in this exact situation didn’t want to have to be lectured about how bad it would be to clear this guy, so they decided to just ignore the rules.
Or in Bove speak, they just told America, “fuck you, we don’t give a shit about you or the future of the United States.”