A whistleblower Thursday launched a trove of messages backing up his declare {that a} high Trump Justice Division official mentioned plans to defy federal judges’ orders in a high-profile mass deportation case.
One message refers to Bove’s supposedly crudely telling fellow prosecutors that they could should openly defy the order of Circuit Courtroom Decide James Boasberg to not hand over the deported immigrants to Salvadoran authorities.
“Guess we are going to say ‘f–k you’ to the court,” Reuveni wrote to a colleague in a single message.
Prosecutors and different federal officers are legally certain to obey judges’ orders even when they disagree with them or imagine they may very well be fallacious. Overtly defying them would quantity to a constitutional disaster, critics say.
The Trump administration has dismissed Reuveni’s submitting because the unfounded grievance of a disgruntled former worker.
Bove, a former private lawyer for Trump, has been nominated for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals courtroom choose.
He instructed a congressional panel final month that he by no means mentioned defying courtroom orders from Boasberg or another choose and insisted he didn’t recall utilizing the expletive in any respect.
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Donald Trump seems in courtroom with legal professional Emil Bove on Could 20, 2024. (Getty)
Reuveni was a 15-year veteran profession lawyer at DOJ who was concerned within the deportation of about 200 accused Venezuelan gang members, a bunch that included Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant who was dwelling in Maryland.
The deliberate deportation was practically halted when protection attorneys satisfied Boasberg to order flights carrying the immigrants grounded or to be rotated midflight.
Prosecutors claimed the flights have been already out of U.S. air house and that they lacked the facility to adjust to the order.
Reuveni was later fired after he admitted authorities had mistakenly included Abrego Garcia on the deportation flights in violation of a courtroom order barring his deportation to El Salvador. He has since been returned to the U.S. and is going through federal gang-related human trafficking expenses.
He despatched a whistleblower letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee that accused Bove of weighing whether or not to defy Boasberg’s order.
Initially Revealed: July 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM EDT
