Trump's Plans to Put Emil Bove on the Supreme Court

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/opinion/emil-bove-trump-loyalty.html

https://archive.ph/8ndMo

Trump’s Plans to Put Emil Bove on the Supreme Court
July 16, 2025
By Jeffrey Toobin

The nomination of Emil Bove III to a federal appeals court suggests that President Trump has a new prototype and a new agenda when it comes to the law: Out with the eggheads and in with the street fighters. His first-term judicial appointments transformed constitutional law on a range of subjects, like abortion and affirmative action. In his first term, he served the conservative movement; this time, the movement must serve him.

The president has staffed the top leadership of the Justice Department with individuals whose chief qualification appears to be that they represented Mr. Trump as private lawyers. Pam Bondi, the attorney general, was one of Mr. Trump’s defense lawyers at his first impeachment trial. (Previously, she was the attorney general of Florida.) Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, represented Mr. Trump at his criminal trial in Manhattan. D. John Sauer, the solicitor general, was the lead counsel for Mr. Trump at the Supreme Court when he challenged his prosecution in Trump v. United States. Mr. Bove, who is now Mr. Blanche’s principal deputy in the Justice Department, was his partner in the defense of Mr. Trump in Manhattan. Just as Mr. Trump has put his onetime advocates at the pinnacle of American law enforcement, the nomination of Mr. Bove signals the president’s desire to embed his loyalists in the judicial branch.

With a devoted executive branch and a compliant Congress, Mr. Trump has faced real resistance only from the judiciary, and the nomination of Mr. Bove marks the beginning of his counterattack. His prominence at the Justice Department raises the question of why the president would sideline Mr. Bove to fill a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, an important lifetime position reviewing federal cases in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware but one well removed from carrying out the Trump agenda from day to day.

The answer, which seemed apparent if unspoken at Mr. Bove’s confirmation hearing last month before the Senate Judiciary Committee, is that the president is grooming Mr. Bove for bigger things — possibly a seat on the Supreme Court.

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Trump wants an even more radical and protective Supreme Court.

[dalton99a]

2. It will be at his beck and call

[Irish_Dem]

6. Trump might as well keep a Supreme Court autopen in the Oval Office.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. He doesn't have to go through the charade of seating Bove on a federal appeals court.

Remember Harriet Myers? The attorney (not judge) whom Shrub wanted to put on SCOTUS? She wasn't even a municipal court judge or magistrate. There's nothing in the Constitution or federal law that prevents a President from requesting anybody to be appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Well, not anybody. You have to know SOMETHING about law.

And you remember how Myers' nomination was shot down.

Bove is a legal hack. Even if he were confirmed, he wouldn't have to do jack shit. Ask questions? Nah. Clarence Thomas doesn't ask questions either. Write opinions? Nah. Bove will have his law clerks do that. He'll just make up his mind what the "right answer" should be and tell them to go with whatever brief was submitted and cut and paste.

[Hugin]

4. The Tangeranus very publicly broke with Leonard Leo and his minions...

A while back. I was surprised more wasn’t made of it.

Apparently stating he wasn’t pleased with their guidance on judicial picks.

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5. And he's only 44 years old...

[live love laugh]

7. Around Vance's age ...