Bove's candidacy was sent to the U.S. Senate for a confirmation vote despite significant opposition from former judges and prosecutors.

It is intolerable to us that anyone who disgraces the Justice Department would be promoted to one of the highest courts in the land,” they wrote to senators.

Amid all the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize the justice system, few loom larger right now than the nomination of top Justice Department official Emil Bove to a prestigious appeals-court judgeship.

Ahead of a Thursday vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee on controversial Third Circuit Court of Appeals nominee Emil Bove, Senator Cory Booker and his

According to a complaint published last month, Erez Reuveni, a former immigration lawyer at the Department of Justice, blew the whistle on an extraordinary suggestion that the department would need to consider telling the courts presiding over immigration cases “f**k you” and ignore a judge’s order blocking the hasty and hushed deportation of migrants to El Salvador.