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The complaint complaint alleges that the senior official of the Department of Justice, Emil Bove, said he was willing to violate the judicial orders

An official of the Superior Justice nominated by President Donald Trump to fill a vacancy of the Federal Court of Appeals allegedly suggested that the Trump administration should challenge the judicial orders that sought to restrict their aggressive efforts to deport undocumented immigrants earlier this year, according to a complaint of denunciation of a career official of the DAJ dismissed.

The denunciation of 27 pages, provided to the Judicial Committee of the Senate and the main guard dog of the Department of Justice and obtained by ABC News, alleges that the main associated general attachment, General General, Emil Bove, and other senior officials of the Department of Justice, strategic how they could deceive the courts regarding the efforts of immigration application of the administration and potentially ignore the rules of the judges.

The accusations of Erez Reuveni, who was fired from the department in April after he appeared in a federal court in Maryland and admitted to a judge that the Government had deported by mistake, the member of the defendant of MS-13, Kilmar Abrego García, was delivered to the Senate on the eve of a confirmation hearing so that Bove was in the powerful Circuit Court of US.

“The disseminations of Mr. Reuveni detail the violations of the law, rules or regulations, and the abuse of authority by the personnel of the Department of Justice and the White House, as well as the creation of substantial and specific health and safety threats for non -citizens,” said Reuveni’s lawyers in the letter.

“These high -level government staff challenged and deliberately the judicial orders, they ordered their subordinated lawyers to make misrepresentations to the courts and participated in a scheme to retain relevant information of the court to advance in the priority of the administration to deport non -citizens,” said the letter.

The complaints of Reuveni detailed several internal meetings in which he alleges that Bove and other officials discussed how they could evade legal scrutiny by implementing the invocation of President Trump of the Alien enemies law, an eighteenth -century war authority used to eliminate non -citizens with little not due process. In a meeting on March 14, the complaint alleges that Bove said that the department should consider saying “f — you” to the courts and “ignore any court order.”

“Mr. Reuveni was surprised by Bove’s statement because, according to the knowledge of Mr. Reuveni, no one in the leadership of the Department of Justice, in no administration, had suggested that the Department of Justice could blatantly ignore the judicial orders,” says the letter, repeating the improper. “Mr. Reuveni was incredulous, because, on the contrary, the Department of Justice constantly advises its clients about its obligation to follow the judicial orders, not to ignore them.”

The lawyer Emil Bove Mira while the president -elect of the United States, Donald Trump, appears remotely for a sentence hearing in front of the Judge of the State of New York, Juan Merchan in the Criminal Court of Manhattan, on January 10, 2025, in New York.

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In a statement to The New York Times Responding to the letter, which was first reported by the newspaper, Deputy Attorney General Blanche described Reuveni as a “former discontent employee” and said that his accusations about Bove and other leadership of the Department of Justice “are completely false.”

“I was at the meeting described in the [New York Times] Article and at no time someone suggested a court order should not be followed, “Blanche said.

Reuveni’s accusations fall at the center of an effort of the main judge of the DC district James Boasberg to keep the senior administration officials into contempt for violating a March 15 order to convert an indocumented immigrants plane deported under the alien enemies law before reaching El Salvador. This investigation was presented by a panel of the Court of Appeals in the DC circuit in April.

Bove, according to Reuveni’s account, made clear the officials the day before Boasberg’s order that the planes that lead the deported people “needed to take off regardless of what”, and that was when he made the comment on the potentially challenging judicial orders.

The officials in the room “seemed stunned” after the alleged comments of Bove, and those in the room left the meeting still “understanding that the DOJ would tell DHS to follow all the judicial orders,” according to Reuveni.

In Reuveni’s narration, the meeting was only one in a series of cases that demonstrated efforts of the White House and the leadership of the Department of Justice to challenge the orders of the Court “due to lack of frankness, deliberate delay and misinformation.”

“Discourage customers from participating in illegal behavior is an important part of the role of a lawyer,” says the letter. “Mr. Reuveni tried to do so and was frustrated, threatened, dismissed and publicly belittled by doing his job and telling the truth to court.”

The Senate Democrats are expected to highlight the Reuveni account at the Bove Judicial Confirmation Hearing on Wednesday to strengthen their claims that Bove, who previously served as personal defense lawyer of President Trump, has abused his position in the DOJ to advance in Trump’s political agenda.

“These serious accusations, of a lawyer’s lawyer lawyer who defended the immigration policies of the first Trump administration, not only speak with the fact that Bove do not comply with their ethical obligations as a lawyer, but demonstrates that their activities are part of a broader pattern by President Trump and his allies to undermine the commitment of the Department of Justice to the rule of law,” reference.

“And I imply my republican colleagues from the Senate: they do not take a blind eye to the serious consequences of confirming Mr. Bove to a position for life as judge of the circuit court,” Durbin said.

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