Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is zealously backing Emil Bove’s nomination to a federal appeals court amid suggestions that his confirmation could undermine the rule of law, saying

Bove's candidacy was sent to the U.S. Senate for a confirmation vote despite significant opposition from former judges and prosecutors.

Amid all the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize the justice system, few loom larger right now than the nomination of top Justice Department official Emil Bove to a prestigious appeals-court judgeship.

The Senate Judiciary Committee appears ready to back Justice Department official Emil Bove for an appellate court seat.

According to a complaint published last month, Erez Reuveni, a former immigration lawyer at the Department of Justice, blew the whistle on an extraordinary suggestion that the department would need to consider telling the courts presiding over immigration cases “f**k you” and ignore a judge’s order blocking the hasty and hushed deportation of migrants to El Salvador.

Newly released emails and texts support allegations that Bove, Trump’s court pick, told DOJ attorneys to say “f**k you” to judges who ruled against them.