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DOJ asks appeals panel that stayed Judge Boasberg's criminal contempt proceedings against DOJ to disregard whistleblower/former DOJ atty Erez Reuveni's allegations of outlandish wrongdoing by 3 of the 7 DOJ attys on govt's appeal: Emil Bove, Yaakov Roth, & Drew Ensign.
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June 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM

DOJ asks appeals panel that stayed Judge Boasberg's criminal contempt proceedings against DOJ to disregard whistleblower/former DOJ atty Erez Reuveni's allegations of outlandish wrongdoing by 3 of the 7 DOJ attys on govt's appeal: Emil Bove, Yaakov Roth, & Drew Ensign.
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— Roger Parloff (@rparloff.bsky.social) 2025-06-29T00:00:29.082Z

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1. Bove needs to be held in contempt

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2. Deadline: Legal Blog-Setting the record straight on the Eric Adams dismissal after Emil Bove's confirmation hearing

The important part of the New York City mayor's criminal corruption case is how it was dismissed, not the fact that it was dismissed.

Setting the record straight on the Eric Adams dismissal after Emil Bove's confirmation hearing
The important part of the New York City mayor's criminal corruption case is how it was dismissed, not the fact that it was dismissed. www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...

— Democracy Skies in Blueness - Resist (@democracyblue.bsky.social) 2025-06-26T13:33:07.924Z

https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/emil-bove-confirmation-hearing-eric-adams-trump-rcna215074

The Eric Adams case was bound to come up at Emil Bove’s judicial confirmation hearing on Wednesday — and it did. But the Trump nominee stressed an odd aspect of the case, namely the fact that a federal judge granted the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the New York City mayor’s criminal case.

It’s an odd aspect to emphasize because it was never really in doubt that U.S. District Judge Dale Ho was going to grant the DOJ’s motion, led by Bove, whom President Donald Trump made a high-ranking DOJ official after Bove represented Trump in his criminal cases. Rather, the relevant aspect is how Ho dismissed the case: With prejudice, meaning permanently. Far from being a legal victory for the administration, it was a stunning defeat that left much institutional damage in its wake, as several prosecutors resigned rather than go along with the Bove-backed scheme.

So, the fact that Ho dismissed the case with prejudice is a crucial distinction. Indeed, it’s the whole ballgame. Recall that the failed scheme hinged on the administration being able to keep the charges hanging over Adams — hence the apparent reason why Bove fought so hard not merely to dismiss the case but to do so without prejudice, so that the charges could be revived in the future if the administration were to become displeased with Adams’ political cooperation on immigration enforcement or anything else. Prosecutors who resigned said it amounted to a quid pro quo, which Bove and Adams denied.

With that context in mind, it’s clear that Bove hardly made a point at the hearing when he noted to Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., that Ho had granted the dismissal, as if to imply that the judge agreed with Bove’s reasoning.

On the contrary, Blumenthal replied with the context of Ho’s rationale for dismissing the case with prejudice, where the judge wrote of the apparent quid pro quo bid: “Everything here smacks of a bargain: dismissal of the Indictment in exchange for immigration policy concessions.” The judge further wrote that the DOJ’s position was “fundamentally incompatible with the basic promise of equal justice under law.”

If he’s ultimately confirmed to be a federal appeals court judge, Bove will be tasked with meting out equal justice under law, as Ho did in the Adams case despite Bove’s best efforts. Multiple ethical red flags raise serious questions of whether he’d do so on the bench and whether he deserves to be in such a position. Republican control of the Senate means he’ll likely be confirmed either way.

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3. Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says (NYT report with free link)

Emil Bove III, a Trump judicial nominee, voiced his intent to disobey court orders as others stonewalled and misled judges, according to a complaint.
Here is a free link to the NYT article

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/us/politics/justice-department-emil-bove-trump-deportations-reuveni.html?unlocked_article_code=1.RU8.km0o.B6sL3aIC3wni&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

A senior Justice Department official, Emil Bove III, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders to fulfill the president’s aggressive deportation campaign, according to a whistle-blower complaint by a department lawyer who has since been fired.

The account by the dismissed lawyer, Erez Reuveni, paints a disturbing portrait of his final three weeks on the front lines of the Trump administration’s legal efforts to ship immigrants overseas, often with little notice or recourse. In Mr. Reuveni’s telling, Mr. Bove discussed disregarding court orders, adding an expletive for emphasis, and other top law enforcement officials showed themselves ready to stonewall judges or lie to them to get their way.

Mr. Reuveni’s account, which was obtained by The New York Times, was filed to lawmakers and the Justice Department inspector general on Tuesday, just one day before Mr. Bove is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee for a nomination to a federal appeals court......

Mr. Bove “stressed to all in attendance that the planes needed to take off no matter what,” according to Mr. Reuveni’s account. Mr. Bove then broached “the possibility that a court order would enjoin those removals before they could be effectuated.”

“Bove stated that D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order,” according to the account. “Mr. Reuveni perceived that others in the room looked stunned, and he observed awkward, nervous glances among people in the room. Silence overtook the room.”

Mr. Reuveni and others were “quickly ushered out of the room,” the account says. It continues, “Notwithstanding Bove’s directive, Mr. Reuveni left the meeting understanding that D.O.J. would tell D.H.S. to follow all court orders.”....

Mr. Reuveni’s account describes three instances in which senior Justice Department officials engaged in wrongdoing by ignoring court orders, presenting legal arguments with no basis in law, misrepresenting facts to the courts and, in one instance, directing him to misstate facts in violation of his “legal and ethical duties as an officer of the court.”

One of those cases involved the administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act on March 15 to justify flying more than 100 Venezuelans the administration declared were gang members to CECOT, the El Salvador megaprison.

Bove needs to be held in contempt and not confirmed to be a judge