Trump ally Emil Bove reportedly said the justice department would consider telling courts ‘fuck you’
Emil Bove, the department’s principal associate deputy attorney general, who Donald Trump nominated for the US court of appeals for the third circuit, reportedly said the Department of Justice “would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’” when it came to orders blocking the deportation of undocumented people.
Former attorney at the justice department, Erez Reuveni, claimed Bove said the agency should violate court orders. In a whistleblower letter to members of Congress first obtained by the New York Times, Reuveni painted the scene of a lawless justice department willingly to defy the courts and fire the people who stood in their way.