{"id":10625,"date":"2025-06-25T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bove-denies-advising-anyone-to-flout-court-orders\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T15:48:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T15:48:02","slug":"bove-denies-advising-anyone-to-flout-court-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/bove-denies-advising-anyone-to-flout-court-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Bove denies advising anyone to flout court orders"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official who\u2019s up for a circuit court judgeship, denied allegations from a former DOJ official that he suggested the department would flout court orders for the administration’s agenda.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have never advised a Department of Justice attorney to violate a court order,\u201d he told the senators at a Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Erez Reuveni, who was fired from DOJ in April, alleged that Bove indicated during a meeting that the administration would defy court orders to conduct its aggressive deportation agenda. Reuveni submitted his allegations<\/a> in a whistleblower letter to Congress and the Department\u2019s inspector general.<\/p>\n

Democrats were quick to argue the charges called into question Bove\u2019s fitness for the lifetime appointment to the circuit court.<\/p>\n

Bove also defended the widely-criticized decision to abandon the corruption prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, which triggered a revolt inside the Justice Department and prompted at least 10 prosecutors in New York and Washington to resign.<\/p>\n

In his defense, Bove pointed to the decision by U.S. District Judge Dale Ho to dismiss the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe motion to dismiss those charges was granted,\u201d Bove said, \u201cbecause the motion reflected a valid exercise of prosecutorial discretion.\u201d<\/p>\n

But in his decision, Ho excoriated Justice Department officials\u2019 rationales<\/a> for abandoning the case and wrote that he agreed to dismiss the case because he can\u2019t force the department to prosecute someone.<\/p>\n

Bove also denied that there was a deal with Adams to drop the prosecution in exchange for the Democratic mayor\u2019s support for Trump\u2019s immigration agenda. \u201cThe suggestion that there was some kind of quid pro quo was just plain false,\u201d Bove said.<\/p>\n

Moments later, however, Bove acknowledged that \u201cpolicy reasons made it appropriate to dismiss the charges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bove disputed some of the widespread characterizations of him, saying: \u201cI am not anybody\u2019s henchman. I am not an enforcer. I am a lawyer from a small town who never expected to be in an arena like this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emil Bove, a top Justice Department official who\u2019s up for a circuit court judgeship, denied allegations from a former DOJ official that he suggested the department would flout court orders for the administration’s agenda. \u201cI have never advised a Department of Justice attorney to violate a court order,\u201d he told the senators at a Judiciary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}