All posts tagged "Emil Bove"

Former Justice Department pardon attorney Liz Oyer described the "bizarre scene" that took place at Attorney General Todd Blanche's swearing-in.

During a Saturday interview with former CNN anchor Jim Acosta, Oyer described how DOJ employees had to come out of their office to applaud Blanche after he was sworn in by Emil Bove, another former personal lawyer of President Donald Trump.

"He was sworn in in a private event at the White House that was not open to the press," Oyer told Acosta. "You would know better than I, but I think that's unusual that the press is not invited to the swearing-in of the Attorney General."...

A legal analyst expects Todd Blanche to be confronted with tough questions about President Donald Trump's fixer during his upcoming confirmation hearing.

During an episode of Legal AF, national trial lawyer and strategist Michael Popok said that aside from questions about Blanche's handling of the Epstein files, Trump's pick for attorney general will have to answer for his ties to Trump's personal lawyer and "consigliere," Boris Epshteyn.

"There's a shadowy figure that controls all of Donald Trump's private lawyers and law firms, his battalion of lawyers going after his political enemies in courts, suing baselessly for defamation and even going after his sex abuse victims like E. Jean Carroll," Popok said. "All of those lawyers, whether they're located in Miami or in New York or in Chicago or D.C., are controlled by one person, an advisor to Donald Trump named Boris Epshteyn."...

The Trump administration's defiance of federal judges is starting to backfire as a contempt case is revived, according to a legal expert.

Former U.S. Attorney Joyce Vance wrote in a Tuesday piece for her Civil Discourse Substack about a long-running fight over the March 2025 deportation of Venezuelan men to El Salvador's CECOT prison.

Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the planes carrying the Venezuelan men to turn back and return the men, but the Trump administration landed the planes and handed the men over anyway, Vance recounted....

A former Donald Trump lawyer who leapfrogged from that position to an FBI job before being appointed to a lifetime position on the federal bench could be headed for a court-ordered investigation after an ethics complaint was filed late Wednesday.

Controversial attorney Emil Bove, who is still under a cloud over his involvement in ignoring another federal judge’s order to halt the forcible deportation of immigrants, is now being scrutinized for attending a Trump rally in a tiny Pennsylvania resort town on Tuesday.

According to a report from the New York Times, Bove was photographed in the crowd at the casino in the Poconos where the president gave a rambling speech, which set in motion the ethics complaint from advocacy group Fix the Court that was filed with the chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit....

President Donald Trump's rally in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday had one notable guest in attendance — Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove. Now, multiple legal experts are questioning why a member of the judiciary was in the audience for a rabidly partisan event.

The New York Times reported Wednesday that Bove, who was one of Trump's personal attorneys before ascending to a top position in Trump's Department of Justice and eventually a judicial post, has been subjected to an official ethics complaint for attending the rally. While Bove didn't speak or stand behind Trump during his speech, he was spotted in the crowd by an MS NOW reporter and told them he was "just here as a citizen coming to watch the president speak."

However, Trump's rally pivoted sharply from its stated topic of addressing the high cost of living to the president's typical rally fare, like railing against immigrants from underdeveloped countries. During one part of the speech, Trump attacked Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and repeated a debunked conspiracy theory while suggesting the four-term congresswoman and naturalized U.S. citizen should be deported. ...

Former assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Glenn Kirschner argues in a new video that officials in President Donald Trump's administration are on shaky ground regarding potential perjury charges.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, who is the chief judge in the District of Columbia, on Tuesday set an evidentiary hearing to determine which (if any) Trump officials intentionally defied his order to turn around planes carrying Venezuelan migrants against in violation of constitutional due process rights. Boasberg ordered two Department of Justice (DOJ) officials to testify in a case examining whether Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem should face criminal charges for allegedly violating a March 2025 order halting the removal of the migrants.

At the center of the escalating court fight is a fundamental test of presidential power and judicial authority and whether Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem defied a federal judge’s order to stop the removals....