{"id":18234,"date":"2025-06-18T18:20:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18234"},"modified":"2025-06-18T18:20:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T18:20:25","slug":"the-next-conservative-civil-war-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18234","title":{"rendered":"The Next Conservative Civil War Is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;the more tangible potential rupture with at least parts of the conservative legal movement is coming over Trump\u2019s decision to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/05\/28\/emil-bove-judge-nomination-trump-00373123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nominate Emil Bove<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 formerly Trump\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/05\/14\/trump-trial-lawyers-mistakes-00157734\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criminal defense lawyer<\/a>, currently&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/politico-nightly\/2025\/05\/20\/a-trump-enforcer-at-doj-may-be-getting-a-promotion-00360533\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Trump\u2019s enforcer<\/a>&nbsp;at the Justice Department \u2014 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prominent members of the conservative legal movement have been publicly speaking out against Bove\u2019s nomination, arguing that he would be more loyal to Trump than the rule of law. That in turn has sparked a backlash against Bove\u2019s critics from Trump allies eager to install a new set of judges who may be less tied to the old guard on the right.&#8221;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/16\/emil-bove-nomination-conservative-legal-civil-war-00405837\">https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/16\/emil-bove-nomination-conservative-legal-civil-war-00405837<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the more tangible potential rupture with at least parts of the conservative legal movement is coming over Trump\u2019s decision to nominate Emil Bove \u2014 formerly Trump\u2019s criminal defense lawyer, currently Trump\u2019s enforcer at the Justice Department \u2014 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent members of the conservative legal movement have been publicly speaking out against Bove\u2019s nomination, arguing that he would be more loyal to Trump than the rule of law. That in turn has sparked a backlash against Bove\u2019s critics from Trump allies eager to install a new set of judges who may be less tied to the old guard on the right.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2025\/06\/16\/emil-bove-nomination-conservative-legal-civil-war-00405837<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1395,1338,219,790,221,1213,509,170],"class_list":["post-18234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-civil-war","tag-conservatism","tag-conservatives","tag-courts","tag-donald-trump","tag-judiciary","tag-politics","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18235,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18234\/revisions\/18235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}