FILE PHOTO: Emil Bove, attorney for former US President Donald Trump, attends at Manhattan criminal court in New York, US, on Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. JEENAH MOON/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) hammered judicial nominee Emil Bove during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday ahead of a confirmation vote.
In his opening statement, Booker cited several GOP legal experts, including an op-ed from the conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board in opposition to Bove's approval.
"I don't even understand how we're considering someone for a lifetime appointment on the federal bench who has such disregard for court orders," Booker said. "But to characterize this as Democrats having problems with this nominee is a wrong characterization. We are seeing more and more respected conservative leaders coming out against this."
The opposition is "bipartisan," Booker said.
He also said that he submitted a professional misconduct complaint to the New York Bar ahead of the nomination and prior to the new whistleblower complaint against Bove, which was submitted to the committee on Tuesday.
"Mr. Bove should be before us today in an oversight hearing on the unlawful acts of the Justice Department," Booker continued. "He should be before us to account for what we have seen going on in a very unusual way. He should not be before us for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench."
Booker also added that Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has long purported to support whistleblowers and if that continues to be true, then the author of the whistleblower complaint should be brought before the committee to answer questions under oath.
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