The Senate confirms Trump

Washington – The Senate Republicans confirmed Emil Bove on a federal life trial on Tuesday, choosing to ignore the credible accusations that Bove had told the lawyers of the Department of Justice that they challenge the judicial orders and said “fuck” the judges who ruled against them.

Bove was confirmed, 50-49. All the Democrats opposed him, along with two Republicans: Sens. Lisa Murkowski (Alaska) and Susan Collins (Maine).

Bove, 44, will now serve in the United States Appeals Court for the 3rd Circuit, which has jurisdiction on cases in Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and the Virgin Islands.

Given his age, he will potentially sit in this court for decades.

Bove is easily the most alarming court of President Donald Trump in his second term. He was previously Trump’s criminal personal defense lawyer and, until now, has been Trump’s call “Executive” In the Department of Justice, where months has passed an apparent campaign of remuneration against Trump’s perceived political enemies.

As the top official of the Department of Justice, Bove He ordered the shots of federal prosecutors who worked in criminal cases derived from January 6, 2021, the insurrection. Ordered career prosecutors to dismiss corruption charges against the mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, in A clear agreement of Quid Pro quo. He also called Al Firm of senior FBI officials that were involved in the probes of January 6.

Bove has faced the condemnatory accusations of former DJ lawyer, Erez Reuveni, who said In a dissemination of complainants That Bove had told the lawyers of the Department of Justice to ignore the judicial orders, deceive the judges and told them “fuck you” if they dictated against the department in a case that involves the elimination of hundreds of immigrants to a prison in El Salvador.

When asked about this at his Senate nomination hearing, Bove said He couldn’t remember To say those things and denied that he would have told people to challenge the orders of the courts.

A second complainant later presented documents corroborating the accusations of Reuveniand a third complainant arose on Monday with documentation that suggests Bove cheated the senators during his hearing before the Judicial Committee of the Senate.

And in an impressive reprimand, more than 900 former lawyers of the Department of Justice signed a letter condemning the “assault” of Bove to the employees of the Department of Justice and urged the senators to “rigorously examine” their history before considering voting for it.

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But none of this influenced the Republicans to oppose Bove, whose confirmation was clearly a high priority for Trump.

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-NOA), president of the Senate Judicial Committee, remained firm to boost Bove in the midst of all accusations against him. He compared the attacks of the Democrats against Bove with the way they attacked the judge of the Court now Supreme Brett Kavanaugh, who faced fresh and credible accusations of sexual aggression just before the Republicans confirm it in his position.

“The media stains of the eleventh hour of my colleagues based on the information that was hidden from the Committee are unacceptable, and I will not bear it as a tactic of delay and obstruction,” Grassley said on Tuesday on the Senate’s floor.

“This tactic did not work against Judge Kavanaugh, and will not work against Mr. Bove,” he said.

The Democrats were fighting until the end to stop Bove nomination.

Senator Dick Durbin (D-Bill.), The main democrat in the judicial panel, published a lot of text messages, email exchanges and other documents that corroborate the accusations of Reuveni. After the third complainant was filed, the Sens. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) And Cory Booker (Dn.J.) wrote on Tuesday the interim inspector General of the DOJ with questions about whether Bove is or has been investigated by the department for irregularities.

In a final appeal to his Republican colleagues before the vote, Durbin warned that Trump is not even trying to hide his belief that Bove’s loyalty meets him. He cited a message that Trump published on social networks last month about Bove.

“President Trump himself has made it clear that Mr. Bove was selected for this position not for his legal achievements, or his dedication to a conservative method of constitutional interpretation,” Durbin said on the Senate’s floor. “As the president said, Mr. Bove” will do anything … that is necessary to make the United States great again. “

The leader of the Senate minority, Chuck Schumer (DN.Y.) took a tougher tactic, condemning the Republicans for voting to put a “sympathizer of January 6” in the Federal Bank.

“My republican colleagues who were here on January 6 and now put it in the bank: shame,” Schumer said on the Senate’s floor. “Confirm that Mr. Bove is a sacrilegious act against our democracy and a deep violation against the spirit of our office oaths.”

Progressive judicial defense groups harden over Bove confirmation.

“His deeply inappropriate judicial temperament, his unacceptable record of abusing power and his disturbing efforts to seek reprisals, while in the Department of Justice it should have been disqualifying. He was rewarded with a position for life in a powerful Court of Appeals,” said Lena Zwarensteyn, senior director of the Court of Court statement.

“All senators who voted to confirm Mr. Bove, despite the revelations of serious, worrying and growing complainants and so many unanswered questions, has failed in their voters and our country,” said Zwarensteyn.

Maggie Jo Buchanan, interim executive director of Demand Justice, said that Bove’s confirmation “represents some of the worst aspects of too many chosen for the position in Washington: Albarda and political convenience on the duty of the constituents.”

“The American people want and deserve independent and fair judges, not those who have not done anything to hide their political loyalties,” he said in a statement. “Those who voted to confirm a life seat at the Federal Bank should be ashamed.”