Trump Nominates His Criminal Defense Lawyer And “Personal Enforcer” To Federal Appeals Circuit Court

May 28, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies

The New York Times reports:

President Trump announced Wednesday that he would nominate Emil Bove III, the polarizing and widely feared top Justice Department official responsible for strong-arm tactics in enacting Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda, to be a federal appeals judge.

Mr. Bove, 44, is a former criminal defense lawyer for Mr. Trump. He would fill a vacancy on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. The lifetime appointment requires conformation in the Senate, where he is expected to face the unanimous opposition of Democrats.

A defining episode of his tenure so far was the battle he waged against his former colleagues in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York over the administration’s request to drop bribery charges against the New York mayor, Mr. Adams.

Peter Montgomery writes at Right Wing Watch:

Bove has been described by the New York Times as “the main enforcer of President Trump’s demands for retribution and unimpeded control of federal law enforcement.” Making Bove a federal judge would be a major threat to the rule of law, perhaps the strongest sign yet of Trump’s contempt for the federal courts’ role as a constitutional check on his abuses of power.

Before Trump returned to office this year, Bove served as one of his criminal defense lawyers. When it became clear that he and other Trump attorneys would be granted top positions in the administration, hard-right judicial activist Mike Davis declared on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast that Bove and others would be “savages” in the Justice Department, not “FedSoc cucks turning the other cheek.”

Bove hasn’t disappointed the MAGA hardliners. Since taking a top Justice Department position, Bove oversaw a purge of Justice Department and FBI officials who had been involved in investigating and prosecuting people who took part in the violent attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Bove appeared here countless times during Trump’s trials.



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