{"id":779,"date":"2025-05-19T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/?p=779"},"modified":"2025-05-20T00:31:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T00:31:43","slug":"trump-considers-former-defense-attorney-emil-bove-for-federal-appeals-court-vacancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/19\/trump-considers-former-defense-attorney-emil-bove-for-federal-appeals-court-vacancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump considers former defense attorney Emil Bove for federal appeals court vacancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump<\/u><\/a> is considering Justice Department official Emil Bove, his former defense attorney, for a U.S. appeals court vacancy \u2014 a controversial nomination that would come as he continues to attack so-called “activist” judges for blocking his agenda.<\/p>\n

Bove, 44, is among those Trump is considering for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.<\/p>\n

There are currently two vacancies on the court \u2014 increasing the odds that Bove’s name could be floated by Trump. If confirmed, he would serve a lifetime appointment on the federal bench<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bove’s name is not the only one being considered, familiar sources say, and conversations are believed to be in the early stages.<\/p>\n

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Prior to his installation at the Justice Department, Bove spent nearly 10 years as a U.S. prosecutor for the Southern District of New York.<\/p>\n

He also defended Trump in two of his criminal trials following his first term in the White House.<\/p>\n

In each of these roles and at DOJ, Bove’s hard-charging tactics have solidified his reputation as a fierce, loyal and, at times, aggressive leader.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the Justice Department, Bove has emerged as the man behind some of the administration’s most contentious actions \u2014 prompting some officials to resign rather than carry out his marching orders.<\/p>\n

Shortly after taking office, he sent a memo threatening state and city officials with criminal charges or civil penalties if they failed to comply with the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration or slow-walked their orders on enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Federal law prohibits state and local actors from resisting, obstructing and otherwise failing to comply with lawful immigration-related commands,” Bove said in the memo.<\/p>\n

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It was Bove who ordered federal prosecutors<\/a> for the Southern District of New York to file a motion to dismiss charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That order prompted a string of resignations from personnel, including acting U.S attorney for the section Danielle Sassoon to leave DOJ rather than drop the case.<\/p>\n

Bove, along with Edward Sullivan from the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, eventually signed on to the motion themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News also reported earlier this year that Bove was behind<\/a> an exhaustive questionnaire sent to FBI agents detailing their roles in the Jan. 6 investigations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Questions ranged from agents’ participation in any grand jury subpoenas to whether the agents worked or responded to leads from another FBI field office or if they worked as a case agent for investigations.<\/p>\n

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Former Justice Department<\/u><\/a> officials have cited concerns that the probe or any retaliatory measures carried out as a result could have a chilling effect on the work of the FBI, including its more than 52 separate field offices.<\/p>\n

The group cited in particular the order from acting then-Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove to terminate the entire FBI senior leadership team and the assistant director in charge of the Washington Field Office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Bove would face a highly uncertain path to confirmation if nominated. The news comes at a time when Democrats have sharply excoriated what they argue are Trump’s attempts to install loyalists to head up the DOJ and FBI.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The White House and Justice Department did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump is considering Justice Department official Emil Bove, his former defense attorney, for a U.S. appeals court vacancy \u2014 a controversial nomination that would come as he continues to attack so-called “activist” judges for blocking his agenda. Bove, 44, is among those Trump is considering for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":780,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.vecimasupport.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}