Democrats are taking their opposition to President Donald Trump to new levels, with walking out on the Senate Judiciary Committee vote on Emil Bove’s judicial nomination.
Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, potentially aware Democrats were going to just straight party-line vote “no” anyway, called for the vote, while Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., was ostensibly filibustering a delay.
Booker kept speaking as Democrats walked out on him and the committee that was proceeding to the vote.
Grassley was seeking to advance Bove’s nomination to serve on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit to the full Senate.
Gates McGavick, a DOJ spokesperson, called Bove “a highly qualified judicial nominee who has done incredible work at the Department of Justice to help protect civil rights, dismantle foreign terrorist organizations, and make America safe again.”
Bove was involved in decisions to fire probationary prosecutors who handled cases against people who protested at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Bove also got prosecutors in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., to drop the criminal corruption charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, prompting 11 lawyers to resign in protest.
Most recently, a former Justice Department attorney who was fired after opining the government erred by deporting Kilmar Abrego Garcia to El Salvador filed a whistleblower complaint alleging Bove, using profane language, told DOJ attorneys they could consider defying court orders on a case involving the deportation of Venezuelan migrants.
Bove has denied suggesting that department attorneys could consider defying the courts.
Information from Reuters was used to compile this report.
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