According to MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, the odds are stacking up against Department of Justice official Emil Bove's nomination to a lifetime appointment to the bench after a batch of emails and texts were exposed, and one email in particular could be the one that dooms his bid.
In her column for MSNBC, Rubin said Bove's widely reported advice to DOJ lawyers serving under him to prepare to essentially tell judges "F--- you" is damning enough, but an email sent to DOJ lawyers offers proof that Bove felt he was above the law.
The email, dated March 16, 2025, was written by Yaakov Roth of the Justice Department’s Civil Division who told colleagues, "he had been advised by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office that Bove 'advised DHS last night that the deplaning of the flights that had departed US airspace prior to the court’s minute order was permissible under the law and the court’s order," Rubin wrote.
She noted that email indicates Bove knowingly gave advice to DHS contrary to a ruling from U.S. District Judge James Boasberg who had already orally ordered the administration to turn El Salvador-bound planes full of immigrants around.
Calling it "perhaps the most important email," Rubin added it matters because, "If, as a lawyer for the United States, Emil Bove cannot be trusted to follow court orders, should the Senate entrust him with reviewing, much less upholding, them?"
"Suddenly, next week’s expected vote on Bove’s nomination just became more complicated," she predicted.
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