{"id":11579,"date":"2025-07-22T21:47:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-moves-on-emil-bove-nomination\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T21:47:26","slug":"senate-moves-on-emil-bove-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-moves-on-emil-bove-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate moves on Emil Bove nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Republicans cleared a key procedural hurdle to advance Emil Bove\u2019s confirmation to a seat on the Third Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate voted 50-48 Tuesday afternoon to proceed with Bove\u2019s nomination, after Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley\u2019s decision to pause debate on his nomination caused <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/07\/17\/senate-democrats-protest-bove-nomination-00459557\" target=\"_blank\">a Democratic walkout<\/a> in committee last week. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined with Democrats in voting &#8220;no.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Democrats have argued that Bove is unqualified for the federal bench because of his overwhelming fealty to President Donald Trump, citing allegations from a whistleblower that Bove suggested defying court orders for the administration\u2019s agenda. Members of House Democratic leadership devoted a large portion of their weekly press conference earlier Tuesday to bashing Bove&#8217;s nomination and record.<\/p>\n<p>Bove, Trump\u2019s former criminal defense attorney and now a top Justice Department official, has also come under scrutiny for his role in the firing of DOJ officials involved in Jan. 6 Capitol attack cases and the dismissal of corruption charges against New York City mayor Eric Adams.<\/p>\n<p>If confirmed, Bove would hold a lifetime appointment on the powerful bench that hears appeals from Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the Virgin Islands.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans cleared a key procedural hurdle to advance Emil Bove\u2019s confirmation to a seat on the Third Circuit. The Senate voted 50-48 Tuesday afternoon to proceed with Bove\u2019s nomination, after Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley\u2019s decision to pause debate on his nomination caused a Democratic walkout in committee last week. Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski [&hellip;]<\/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-11579","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\/11579","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=11579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}