ICYMI: The Senate Moves Ahead With Bove's Judicial Nomination
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🗓️ 24 July 2025
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Summary
The Senate voted Tuesday to begin considering former Trump defense attorney Emil Bove for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals judge for the Third Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals.
Bove, the president's former defense attorney and now a senior Justice Department official, was the subject of a recent whistleblower complaint. According to that complaint, Bove suggested defying court orders to advance Trump's immigration agenda.
Democrats and at least one Republican have vowed to do everything possible to keep him from being confirmed. We discuss who Bove is and the implications for the judiciary if his nomination goes through.
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| 0:34.3 | President Trump has nominated loyal associates to influential positions over and over across the |
| 0:40.8 | government. In a lot of cases, they're his personal attorneys, the lawyers who defended him against |
| 0:46.6 | criminal charges, lawsuits, and in public. But one of the president picks for the federal bench has |
| 0:52.2 | legal experts, a lot of lawmakers, and at least one |
| 0:55.2 | whistleblower, sounding the alarm. Here's New Jersey Democratic Senator Cory Booker. |
| 1:00.5 | When we were in the majority and listened to my colleagues' arguments, listen to their passionate |
| 1:05.1 | statements, and then we voted. This is not that. This is us simply trying to rush through one of the most controversial |
| 1:12.9 | nominees we've had under this presidential administration. The Senate voted on Tuesday to begin |
| 1:18.8 | considering former Trump defense attorney Emil Bovet for a lifetime appointment as a federal |
| 1:24.7 | appeals judge for the Third Circuit. Bovet is already a senior Justice |
| 1:29.4 | Department official, and in that role, is already under scrutiny for allegedly urging DOJ |
| 1:35.3 | officials to defy court orders to advance Trump's immigration agenda, and a lot more. |
| 1:41.9 | Democrats stormed out of a hearing that sent Bovet's nomination to the Senate |
| 1:45.5 | floor last week. Several Republicans have voiced concerns about the pick with at least one |
| 1:50.5 | vowing to oppose Bovay's nomination. After the break, Glenn Thrush of the New York Times joins |
| 1:56.4 | to tell us more about Bovet and why he might be the most divisive Trump nominee yet. |
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