{"id":1201,"date":"2025-07-15T13:27:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T13:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2025-07-15T19:24:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T19:24:20","slug":"senate-democrats-demand-hearing-with-doj-whistleblower-ahead-of-bove-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/senate-democrats-demand-hearing-with-doj-whistleblower-ahead-of-bove-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats demand hearing with DOJ whistleblower ahead of Bove vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing the panel\u2019s Republicans to swiftly call a hearing with a Justice Department (DOJ) whistleblower who has accused President Trump&#8217;s judicial nominee Emil Bove of suggesting the DOJ defy court orders.<\/p>\n<p>Erez Reuveni, who was fired by the Justice Department shortly after he told a judge that detained migrant Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported in error, was present in a meeting in which he alleged Bove said the DOJ may need to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5394786-trump-administration-migrant-flights-contempt\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5394786-trump-administration-migrant-flights-contempt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tell the courts \u201cf\u2011\u2011\u2011 you\u201d<\/a> if judges sought to block deportations to a notorious Salvadoran prison.<\/p>\n<p>Bove, a senior official in the deputy attorney general&#8217;s office, has since been nominated by Trump for <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5322353-trump-nominates-emil-bove-as-federal-appeals-judge\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5322353-trump-nominates-emil-bove-as-federal-appeals-judge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a lifetime appointment<\/a> to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_shortcode\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-widget sailthru-signup-display-area sailthru-signup-hill-position-main\">\n\t\t<span class=\"sailthru-signup-widget-close\"><a href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\">Close<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-success-message\">\n<div class=\"icon\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"thanks\">Thank you for signing up!<\/p>\n<p class=\"watch\">Subscribe to more newsletters <a href=\"http:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/join\/7aa\/signup\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-subscribe-grid-display\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-logo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru-signup-display-message\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span>The latest in politics and policy.<br \/>\nDirect to your inbox.<br \/>\nSign up for the 12:30 Report newsletter<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"sailthru_form_input form-group\">\n<div class=\"sailthru-add-subscriber-errors\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"input-group-btn\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button class=\"sailthru-signup-display-button\" type=\"submit\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSubscribe<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\tif ( window.checkSizeClasses &amp;&amp; window.checkSizeClasses instanceof Function) {<br \/>\n\t\t\t\twindow.checkSizeClasses();<br \/>\n\t\t\t}<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cMr. Reuveni has made credible allegations against Mr. Bove, which, if true, clearly disqualify him for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. Thus, it is imperative that the Committee hear from Mr. Reuveni, under oath, before we vote on Mr. Bove\u2019s nomination,\u201d Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, wrote alongside other members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCalling Mr. Reuveni to testify under oath will allow members of this Committee to appraise the veracity of his claims while defending the Committee\u2019s prerogative to assess Mr. Bove\u2019s qualifications.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The panel will weigh Bove&#8217;s nomination on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Last week the committee&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5394786-trump-administration-migrant-flights-contempt\/\">released substantial documentation<\/a>&nbsp;from Reuveni showing other DOJ employees present for the March 14 meeting referencing the expletive as well as the directive to defy the courts.<\/p>\n<p>That includes allegations that another DOJ attorney, Drew Ensign, said he was unaware about the status of any flights despite preparations underway for two plans to take some 200 Venezuelan migrants to a facility in El Salvador.<\/p>\n<p>As court hearings were underway, Reuveni relayed the order from a judge that the flights must be halted or turned around, but the flights nonetheless landed, and the men have spent months in a Salvadoran megaprison.<\/p>\n<p>In an earlier hearing, Bove said he could not recall whether he used the expletive but sidestepped whether he gave orders to defy the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve certainly said things encouraging litigators at the department to fight hard for valid positions that we have to take,\u201d Bove responded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI certainly conveyed the importance of the upcoming operation,\u201d he added about the Alien Enemies Act flights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Reuveni told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/10\/us\/politics\/trump-bove-reuveni-whistleblower-doj-deportations.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The New York Times<\/a> he is willing to testify before the panel.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has pushed back on the story, attacking Reuveni.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis disgruntled employee is not a whistleblower \u2014 he\u2019s a leaker asserting false claims seeking five minutes of fame, conveniently timed just before a confirmation hearing and a committee vote,\u201d Attorney General Pam Bondi wrote on the social platform X last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis \u2018whistleblower\u2019 signed 3 briefs defending DOJ\u2019s position in this matter and his subsequent revisionist account arose only after he was fired because he violated his ethical duties to the department.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing the panel\u2019s Republicans to swiftly call a hearing with a Justice Department (DOJ) whistleblower who has accused President Trump&#8217;s judicial nominee Emil<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/07\/15\/senate-democrats-demand-hearing-with-doj-whistleblower-ahead-of-bove-vote\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Senate Democrats demand hearing with DOJ whistleblower ahead of Bove vote<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1202,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}