The influential Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, on the other hand, deplored in a press release “A terrible choice” for this Federal Court of Appeal and a “serious error on the part of his Republican colleagues”, stressing that it was a life appointment.
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“The main qualification of Mr. Bove seems to be his blind loyalty to this president,” he said, recalling his intervention to order New York prosecutors to abandon prosecution for corruption against the mayor, who had aroused a cascade of resignations within the federal prosecutor’s office in the United States.
The hearings before a senatorial commission for his appointment had been particularly hectic, due in particular to testimonies of whistleblowers.
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One of them, a prosecutor recently dismissed by the Ministry of Justice, said that Emil Bove had been ready to ignore justice decisions to apply the policy of massive expulsions of immigrants in an irregular situation wanted by Donald Trump.
The criticisms emanated not only from the democratic opposition, but also from the judicial institution itself.
More than 900 former federal prosecutors as well as more than 75 ex-federal and local jugs had written to the senatorial commission to express their concerns in the face of this choice.
