A disgruntled DOJ lawyer recently fired for apologizing to an Obama judge overseeing the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case dropped an eleventh-hour hit piece on Trump’s Third Circuit Court nominee Emil Bove.
Emil Bove testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month for his nomination to the Third Circuit Court so an angry DOJ lawyer launched an attack on his so-called proposal to defy court orders.
In April, Erez Reuveni, a senior DOJ immigration lawyer, was fired after he apologized to a federal judge and appeared unprepared for the hearing in the case of an MS-13 gang member deported to El Salvador’s prison.
Obama judge Paula Xinis previously ordered the Trump Administration to return MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to the United States after he was deported to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
“This was an illegal act,” Judge Paula Xinis told a Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni according to Politico. “Congress said you can’t do it, and you did it anyway.”
Reuveni repeatedly apologized to the judge during the hearing and apologized for the Trump Administration’s actions.
“I am also frustrated that I have no answer for you on a lot of these questions,” said Erez Reuveni. “The government made a choice here to produce no evidence.”
Last month Reuveni attacked Trump’s nominee to the Florida-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals.
According to a 27-page letter submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee through Reuveni’s, lawyers, Emil Bove, the principal associate deputy attorney general, said during a mid-March meeting that the Trump Administration would ignore court orders from radical judges if they interfered with President Trump’s immigration policies.
“Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such court order,” Reuveni’s attorneys wrote in the 27-page complaint first reported by The New York Times. “Mr. Reuveni was stunned by Bove’s statement because, to Mr. Reuveni’s knowledge, no one in DOJ leadership — in any Administration — had ever suggested the Department of Justice could blatantly ignore court orders, especially with a ‘fuck you.’”
On Thursday, Erez Reuveni launched another attack on Emil Bove and released documents detailing Emil Bove’s efforts to push back on rogue judges undermining Trump’s immigration policies.
US Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a statement on Reuveni’s latest attack against Emil Bove.
“We support legitimate whistleblowers, but this disgruntled employee is not a whistleblower — he’s a leaker asserting false claims seeking five minutes of fame, conveniently timed just before a confirmation hearing and a committee vote. As Mr. Bove testified and as the Department has made clear, there was no court order to defy, as we successfully argued to the DC Circuit when seeking a stay, when they stayed Judge Boasberg’s lawless order. And no one was ever asked to defy a court order. This is another instance of misinformation being spread to serve a narrative that does not align with the facts. This “whistleblower” signed 3 briefs defending DOJ’s position in this matter and his subsequent revisionist account arose only after he was fired because he violated his ethical duties to the department,” Pam Bondi said.
In An Interview With The Times, Justice Dept. Whistle-Blower Erez Reuveni Warns of Trump Administration’s Assault on the Law https://t.co/w0kxGOk0Yz
— Devlin Barrett (@DevlinBarrett) July 10, 2025
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