One thing is that the Senate Republicans accept when confirming the Crackpots cabinet and remuneration agents of President Trump, according to the argument that an executive director has the prerogative of choosing his group. It is another issue of another issue for Sycophanical senators to avoid their constitutional power of advice and consent when the president's candidate is ready for a life headquarters in the Federal Bank, a work that demands loyalty to the Constitution, not a president.
And yet, the Republican senators seem prepared for another surrender, this time in favor of one of the worst judicial nominations of history: Emil Bove, previously Trump's personal lawyer and during the last six months his execution in the Department of Justice.
On Thursday, the Judicial Committee of the Senate controlled by the Republicans (rather, controlled by Trump) is scheduled to vote if, and finally the complete Senate, should confirm that Bove is a judge in the third Court of Appeals of the United States Circuit. Almost 20 years ago, that court, which listens to from Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and the Virgin Islands, was a springboard for the Supreme Court for another right -wing activist, Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.
It is not unreasonable to imagine that Trump could raise a similar to a judge Bove, if the president has the opportunity to choose a fourth judge of the Supreme Court, so Bove has established his loyalty with Trump, the credential that can most matter to the president. And that was before a complainant alleged Last month, Bove told the lawyers of the Department of Justice that they must be ready to say “F— You” the judges who interposed in the path of deportations of Trump.
Like Trump aware In social networks when announcing his choice, Bove “would do anything else that is necessary to make the United States great again.”
In the times before the plot, Bove nomination would be an easy call: No. And if there was ever a time for the Senate to use its power to send a president that message, now it is. Trump will leave after four years (despite his teasing of a third term). Bove, 44, would be in the bank for maybe four decades.
Congress is supposed to be a coeual branch of the government, and the power of the Senate to confirm the presidential nominations as heavy as the power of a president to do them. The Senate must consider Bove not simply not qualified to be a judge but also scatteredqualified.
Not just take it off. “The atrocious registration of Mr. Bove to mistreat the agents of the law, abuse power and ignore the law itself disqualifies it for this position.” wrote 80 former federal and state judges, appointed from both parties, in a letter to the Judicial Committee of the Senate on Tuesday. When confirming it, they said, “not only would it compromise the integrity of the courts, but would establish a dangerous precedent that the Judiciary can be exercised in the service of personal fidelity instead of constitutional duty.”
As for that atrocious record: before the BOVE association with Trump, he was a prosecutor of the Department of Justice in the Office of the United States Prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, where a promotion was denied and then almost degraded after a Internal consultation in their intimidation behavior. Bove's subsequent work in private practice defended Trump in federal and state cases that sank him after the best ranges of the Trump Department of Justice.
Since then, Bove has executed A purge of lawyers and FBI agents who investigated and processed the Pro-Trump insurrectionists of January 6. He designed The fall of federal bribery charges against the mayor of New York City, and sometimes Trump's ally, Eric Adams, which caused a wave of renunciations and surprisingly condemnatory farewell shotsAmong the prosecutors working in the Adams case. And on the eve of the Bove confirmation hearing in June, a complainant fell A 27 -page memorandum (And later, corroborative electronic texts and emails) alleging the main role of Bove in the administration pattern of ignoring judicial orders and making false statements to the judges to facilitate the impulse of deportations of Trump.
The complainant, veteran of the Department of Justice Erez Reuveni, was not a liberal lunar of deep state; In Trump 1.0, he had repeatedly defended the president's anti -immigrant agenda in the Court. But he said The New Yorker, “Trump 1.0, did not say 'f— you' to the courts.”
Bove has denied suggesting that at a March meeting. “I am not anyone's henchman,” he insisted, unlikely, the Judicial Committee of the Senate.
On Tuesday, the president of the Judicial Committee Chuck Grassley, an Iowa Republican who has been designed for decades as a champion of complainants, refused Democrats demand For an audience with Reuveni before the Votes panel in Bove.
Of the majority Republicans of the Committee, only North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis has been seen as a possible vote against Bove. After all, he opposed the “Big Beutify Bill Bill” law “and, under the fire of the president, announced that he would not seek re -election, which he expected to vote as I wanted it thereafter. Last week he told CNN that he would not support any nominated to condon the riots of January 6, which should rule out Bove. However, that same day Tillis saying I would probably vote for the nominee. His office did not answer the questions that sought to reconcile the statements.
If the committee approves the Bove nomination, sending it to the complete Senate for a vote, it is difficult to identify four Republicans there that they will oppose it, the minimum number necessary for the confirmation of moving assuming that all the Democrats vote not. However, not rejecting it would be the version of the Senate of the profane message of Bove, delivered not only to the courts and the Constitution, but also to the integrity of the congress.
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