915 former Justice Dept. lawyers urge the Senate not to confirm Emil Bove as a federal appeals judge.

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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07/17/us/trump-news-updates#justice-dept-lawyers-emil-bove-federal-judge

More than 900 former Justice Department lawyers have signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing “deep concern” about the nomination of Emil Bove III, a senior Justice Department official, to serve as a federal appeals judge.

In the letter, dated Wednesday, the former department lawyers suggested that Mr. Bove had disgraced the department during his half-year tenure there, and that his confirmation would be “intolerable.”

The letter also mentioned Mr. Bove’s decision to dismiss corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams of New York (the interim Manhattan U.S. attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned rather than sign off on Mr. Bove’s directive), and his role in firing prosecutors who had worked on cases involving the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

Mr. Bove, a former criminal defense lawyer for Mr. Trump who is now the top deputy to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, was accused in the whistle-blower complaint last month of having told subordinates that he was willing to ignore court orders to fulfill Mr. Trump’s sweeping deportation campaign.

The former lawyers said that few actions would cause greater damage to the rule of law than a senior official in the executive branch flouting the authority of the judiciary. They argued that Mr. Bove’s leadership had undermined the work of the Justice Department.

“Mr. Bove’s trampling over institutional norms in this case, and in others, sent shock waves through the ranks — cratering morale, triggering mass departures, and eroding the effectiveness of DOJ’s vital work,” the letter said.

The letter on Wednesday was addressed to Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois, the committee’s top Democrat.

In moving ahead with plans for a vote to advance the nomination, Mr. Grassley has said that he respects whistle-blowers but that he does not believe evidence of misconduct by Mr. Bove has been substantiated.

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Emil Bove will be confirmed by the Republican Senate.

The tyrant must be obeyed