Bove Said to Urge DOJ to Defy Court Orders: The Brief

EMIL BOVE, a Justice Department official and judicial nominee, told government lawyers to ignore court orders against the Trump administration’s move to deport immigrants to El Salvador, according to a veteran DOJ immigration litigator who was fired in April, Suzanne Monyak reports.

• When considering the possibility that a federal court could block the removals, Bove said at a meeting that the government “would need to consider” ignoring “any such court order,” Erez Reuveni alleged Tuesday in a whistleblower complaint, obtained by Bloomberg Law.
• Reuveni was handling various legal challenges related to the administration’s decision to invoke a wartime statute ...