SCOTUS, here he comes
Is Emil Bove the most unfit court of appeals judge in history?
The U.S. Senate last night by 50-49 confirmed the former Donald Trump attorney and Department of Justice official with no prior history as a judge. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted no with all Democrats.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Bove over the objections of more than 80 former federal and state judges.
The U.S. Senate confirmed Bove over the objections of eight former federal prosecutors who describe Bove as a Trump “hatchet man.”
The U.S. Senate confirmed Bove despite a complaint from a whistleblower (with corroboration from two more) that Bove stated in a meeting “that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore” any court orders demanding that the Trump administration cease deporting undocumented persons under the Alien Enemies Act. Bove stressed in the meeting “that the planes needed to take off no matter what.”
The U.S. Senate confirmed Bove over the objections of even more former federal prosecutors who called Bove “the worst conceivable nominee” for a lifetime judicial post:
Bove “has demonstrated a willingness to ignore his oath to the Constitution and to disregard the Rule of Law in an effort to conform to every possible whim of the President,” wrote letter organizers Dan Toomey, former president of the D.C. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Association and a prosecutor from 1968 to 1971, and Charles R. Work, a Reagan presidential appointee and former president of the D.C. Bar. Five other former federal prosecutors who previously served under both Republican and Democratic administrations joined the letter.
“How can Bove be trusted to be fair and impartial in reviewing the appellate cases before him when they conflict with the Trump Administration’s desires?” the former prosecutors wrote to the Senate Judiciary Committee. They said they were sending the letter now before polling former prosecutors who opposed [withdrawn nominee Ed] Martin because of how quickly Bove’s nomination was moving.
Donald Trump is not interested in fair and impartial. He doesn’t mean to govern. He means to rule. He means to install another Trump yes-man on the U.S. Supreme Court at his earliest opportunity. He means to eliminate any prospect of accountability for his grift and his crimes. He means to kill off the rule of law in this country. Federal law, state law, English common law, the U.S. Constitution itself, all of it.
The spoiled 79-year-old child wants what he wants when he wants it. MAGA Republicans prostrating themselves at his feet hope to curry temporary favor (and avoid his tantrums) by giving him everything he wants. The less brainwashed among them hope to wait out his death and to rule over the ruins of the republic when he’s gone.
We’re circling the drain, and the Republican Party has its hand in the tub spinning up the vortex. All in service to this lunatic, a legend in his own mind:
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