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That\u2019s what Emil Bove \u2014 Donald Trump\u2019s criminal defense lawyer-turned-senior Justice Department official \u2014 is going for as he tries to secure a lifetime appointment as a federal judge. The scandal? A scathing whistleblower disclosure by a former Justice Department lawyer that alleges disturbing and unethical conduct on the part of Bove and other senior DOJ lawyers, including multiple efforts to defy the courts in service of Trump\u2019s agenda.<\/p>\n
The disclosure, released one day before Bove\u2019s Senate confirmation hearing last week, has further complicated a nomination that had already opened an uncomfortable fissure within the conservative legal movement and which faces an uncertain future in the GOP-controlled Senate. <\/p>\n
Immediately after the allegations were unveiled, a defense took shape among the Trump administration and its Republican allies.” <\/p>\n
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