'An Existential Threat To The Rule Of Law': Chuck Schumer Hammers Trump's Judicial Nom, Emil Bove

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During remarks on the Senate floor Thursday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke about the nomination of Emil Bove to serve as a federal judge.

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00:00Now on the Bovee cloture vote. Later today Senate Republicans will hold the

00:06first procedural vote on one of Donald Trump's nastiest judicial nominees to

00:10date, Emile Bovee. Mr. Bovee is beyond unqualified and unworthy of the federal

00:17bench. He's an existential threat to the rule of law and our democracy as we know

00:21it. Mr. Bovee is far from the mainstream as any judicial nominee we've

00:25considered in this chamber. He's a Trumpian henchman, the extreme of the

00:31extreme of the extreme. He's openly hostile to the rule of law. He's

00:36fundamentally opposed to democratic norms. He lacks the temperament to serve as a

00:41jurist. And above all, above all, Bovee is religiously obedient to Donald Trump. We

00:49all know that one of the only things that matters to this president is brazen,

00:55unyielding obedience to him, no matter how wrong he is, no matter what lies he

01:00tells. Mr. Bovee made a name for himself by cleaning up Donald Trump's dirty

01:05laundry. That's what he did. He cleaned up Donald Trump's dirty laundry. He's a

01:11devout January 6th apologist who defended Trump as his personal attorney after

01:16Trump was charged with inciting the insurrection. At the Justice Department,

01:20he wielded his power to fire prosecutors working on January 6th criminal cases and

01:26punish FBI agents, people who dedicated their lives to our country and were

01:31simply following the law. He goes out and tries to punish them because they

01:36stopped Donald Trump's insurrection. So instead of working to hold the January 6th

01:43rioters accountable, Bovee sided with the rioters who desecrated the building and

01:48violently attacked our police officers. Imagine Republicans going after people

01:52who attack police officers. All because Donald Trump incited an insurrection that

01:58he now lies about. Well, that's who Mr. Bovee is. And it's not even the all of it.

02:05While at the Justice Department, Mr. Bovee reportedly told DOJ lawyers to ignore

02:10court orders and even deliberately mislead judges. That's what he said. That's what he

02:17reportedly told DOJ lawyers. Ignore court orders and mislead judges. Can you

02:22believe this? We're trying to put this guy on the bench. How low can our

02:25Republican colleagues go in obeisance to Donald Trump when so many of them, not

02:29all of them, not all of them, but so many of them know he's wrong. If there's even a

02:35shred of truth to these allegations, that alone is enough to disqualify Mr. Bovee

02:40from ever holding federal office and federal judgeship above all. But my

02:46Republican colleagues don't seem to want to get to the facts. Republicans are so

02:51afraid of Donald Trump, so willing to do whatever he says, that many of them are

02:57going along with Bovee's nomination without a whisper, without so much as a

03:01whisper of scrutiny. Also, all the signs are pointing towards Bovee being a

03:06disastrous judge who will take advantage of his power on the Third Circuit to

03:10settle scores and advance the Trump agenda. So Republicans have a decision

03:17to make. If they still have any respect left for the Senate as a check on the

03:21executive, if they still have any respect for our judiciary and the rule of law,

03:25then Republicans should join Democrats' vote no on Mr. Bovee's nomination.

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