Texas and emails obtained by Dems on Senate Judiciary reveal creepy looking weirdo former Trump defense lawyer-turned Justice Department official-turned federal circuit court nominee Emil Bove urged DOJ lawyers to defy court orders against deporting people, CBS News reports.
The messages are included as evidence in a whistleblower complaint filed by former DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni, who was canned in April for insubordination after he admitted to a federal judge that Kilmar Abrego Garcia should not have been sent to the CECOT dungeon in El Salvador the previous month, with MAGA enforcer Todd Blanche informing Reuveni he had failed to “follow a directive from your superiors” in a suspension notice prior to the firing. Some of the text messages saved by Reuveni included exchanges between him and another Justice Department lawyer in which they refer to instructions from Bove to communicate a “fuck you” to the court’s order that Kilmar Abrego Garcia and others be returned from El Salvador to US custody after the March 15 deportation flights.
The full batch of messages is expected to be made public later Thursday by Senate Dems, who will probably accuse Bove of perjuring himself during testimony at his confirmation hearing last month.