2nd Whistleblower Confirms Trump Judge Pick Told DOJ To Say ‘Fuck You’ To Federal Courts Opposing Mass Deportation Efforts
from the get-fucked,-emil dept
Sure, “Department of Justice” has always been a misnomer, what with its blessing of things like civil asset forfeiture, bogus CFAA prosecutions, cop junk science, the 1033 program, and the complete inability to successfully sue federal officers for blatant Constitutional violations. But it also used to have things like a civil rights division that investigated misbehaving law enforcement agencies and actually pretended, for the most part, to agree with the long-accepted tenets of the rule of law.
That’s all gone now. Trump’s DOJ has eradicated the civil rights division, only mobilizing it when gun ownership or fundamentalism are “threatened.” It has also discarded any lip service to the rule of law and treats Trump like a king, Constitutional rights as privileges, and the system of checks and balances as a doormat.
Plenty of people in Trump’s cabinet have already made public statements claiming the courts are subservient to King Donald. And the DOJ — going to bat for the administration in an incredible number of lawsuits filed against it — continues to act as though the only rulings it needs to respect are those it agrees with.
The person heading up this blatant disregard for the processes and principles that actually made America great long before Trump arrived in office (either time) is someone Trump wants to give the title of “judge” to. That would be Emil Bove — a man who sits far ahead of Judge Dredd in the “least capable of respecting Constitutional rights” race.
Bove, a 44-year-old who looks like someone dug up Abe Vigoda’s corpse and forced it to self-embalm, is currently not earning his paycheck as the “principal associate attorney general,” which is the sort of extended title one tends to innately disbelieve when it’s sprawled across two columns on a LinkedIn page.
What that means in practice is that Bove can hand out legal guidance to DOJ lawyers. And, according to two(!!) DOJ whistleblowers, that legal guidance includes extending a middle finger to the very courts Trump wants to install Bove in.
Another whistleblower has made claims to the Justice Department’s watchdog that Emil Bove — a top agency official who is now nominated for a judgeship — suggested others in the department could ignore court orders during a contentious legal battle in an immigration case.
The whistleblower, a former DOJ attorney in the Office of Immigration Litigation, told CNN documents have been filed with the DOJ Office of the Inspector General that appear to align with another whistleblower’s account that Bove tried to mislead federal judges during the administration’s aggressive deportation effort this spring.
“I think it would be incredibly dangerous for someone like that to have a lifetime appointment as a federal appellate judge,” the whistleblower said.
Absolutely true! You definitely don’t want someone who thinks courts exist solely to ensure the current administration’s goals aren’t interrupted by civil rights complaints or accusations of actual illegality to ascend to a place where they can make this subservient fever dream a reality.
On the other hand, you’d think a guy who wants a judgeship to encourage respect for the position, because at some point, the power will shift and if Bove wants to keep going MAGA, he’ll need to ensure his rulings are respected, rather than greeted with extended middle fingers by DOJ lawyers employed by the current administration.
As the CNN report notes, these accusations were actually filed with the DOJ Inspector General before former DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni made his allegations public. And those allegations certainly grabbed a fair number of headlines because it’s not every day a high-level DOJ official tells underlings it’s time to say “fuck you” to courts demanding the grounding of deportation flights and the immediate return of migrants who were denied their due process rights.
Unfortunately, I imagine Emil Bove will live through this, despite looking like he spends all day sleeping on death’s doormat. Even if the Inspector General’s office hasn’t been completely overrun by Trump loyalists, there’s a near-100% chance that its report on these multiple allegations will be buried by the asshats running this nation into the ground, starting with the immensely underqualified attorney general Pam Bondi, and ending with everyone who’s still competent enough to carry out the will of a man generally too incoherent to competently explain what he wants or why he wants it.
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Comments on “2nd Whistleblower Confirms Trump Judge Pick Told DOJ To Say ‘Fuck You’ To Federal Courts Opposing Mass Deportation Efforts”
Not if his goal is to weaken the judiciary so that nothing can stand in the way of the far-right authoritarians to which he is loyal.
Well, sure. It’s a lawless regime run on whim and fear that’s currently in the process of establishing a secret police, not an administration.
This article comes from the place of ‘well you’d think someone about to be made a judge would care about people not respecting judicial decisions’, like there’s any kind of rigour to be found in the decisionmaking of the regime, but that’s entirely the wrong end of the stick, for two reasons:
First, the decisions he makes are going to be regime edicts and enforced with masked stormtroopers, and the decisions of judges with any integrity or honesty will be ignored because they aren’t;
Secondly, this is a patronage bribe in the classic way. You give a supporter a job in which they can feel big and collect a paycheque. The only needed qualification is loyalty to the big man.
Nobody in this regime is ever going to care about hypocrisy, or alter their decisions in the least because of it. It operates on the naked levers of greed, hate, and fear, and by the whim of the people at the top.
The power will shift?
“at some point, the power will shift”
People keep saying this and I wonder how true it actually is.
Can you see this bunch saying, “Yeah, we lost the election fair and square, here are the keys”.
The only election that isn’t “rigged” is one that they win.
Why would this change?
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We do still have some safeguards against it.
For starters, the federal government doesn’t actually run the presidential election. The states do that. While a bunch of states might do some nefarious shit to aid the GOP’s next wannabe fascist-in-chief, they won’t all do that.
And if some nefarious shit goes down, most of the lower courts will do their level best to straighten it out. When it gets to SCOTUS is the real toss-up because who knows if the six conservatives there are fully on-board with American fascism.
What happens if SCOTUS rigs the election for the GOP is unknowable. But I’d be willing to believe more Americans would deny than accept such an outcome. And if something drastic must be done to save the country…well, it’s not exactly the first time America would be fighting either a war against itself or a war against fascists.
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Well, look how the power “shifted” away from Hitler and Mussolini. It is not really something to embrace as an excuse to stay passive until war is the only remaining option on the table.
“Constitutional violations” have always been a routine feature of Federal governance.
The assumed efficacy of “Checks & Balances” is obviously just wishful thinking.
If it does't serve the regime it doesn't deserve to exist
In a fascist regime the only qualification to hold office is absolute loyalty to the regime, and specifically the one at the top. Given that someone being nominated to a role they believe should be either utterly controlled by them or destroyed outright, with no in-between, is a feature, not a bug to such a system.
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“the one at the top” is not actually an element of fascism as state theory, it just is an emergent feature. In a similar vein to how the U.S. Constitution does not feature a 2-party system as an inherent principle but as an emergent feature.
Looks like there is now a 3rd whistle blower confirming the others…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/07/28/emil-bove-nomination-judge-mislead
If you are going to blatantly ignore the law and rules of the court, you should be disbarred. The legal system needs to start applying some serious Find Out to those who Fuck Around.