During this hearing before a senatorial commission, the penultimate stage of the appointment process, the Democrats’ elected officials asked to repel the vote in order to hear the testimony of a whistleblower having recently said that Emil Bove said he was ready to ignore the court decisions to implement the massive expulsions of migrants in an irregular situation wanted by Donald Trump.
It was after the refusal by the republican president of the commission that they got up and left the room – before a unanimous vote of the elected officials of the majority.
“Why are you doing this? It’s scandalous, thundered the Democratic Senator Cory Booker. It is a lack of respect. It shows that you just don’t want to hear what your colleagues have to say. »»
Current n.3 of the Ministry of Justice, Emil Bove denies the charges against him.
Emil Bove “was at the forefront in the instrumentalization of the Ministry of Justice against the enemies of the president,” attacked another Democratic parliamentarian, Dick Durbin, during the hearing. “Having won his stripes as a loyalist of the president, he was rewarded by this nomination for life,” he continued.
Beyond the Democratic opposition, Donald Trump’s appointment by Emil Bove, 44, as a judge of appeal in an east jurisdiction of the country (covering the Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware) is widely criticized through the judicial institution.
More than 900 former prosecutors of the Ministry of Justice wrote to the senatorial commission to express their concerns about this “intolerable” choice, as a group of more than 75 ex-federal and local judges.
It is “deeply inappropriate that a president appoints his own penalty lawyer to a position as a federal judge, in particular when this president declared that he called judges according to their loyalty to him rather than at the country”, they are alarmed.
This twist in committee should not, however, question the appointment of Emil Bove, the Republicans with a majority of 53 elected officials against 47 Democrats in the Senate, who must vote at the end of the process.
