On Friday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) alleged that two Trump appointed-judges filed an administrative stay, a legal device which stops court proceedings, to stop possible contempt of court proceedings against President Trump's judicial nominee to the Third Court of Appeals Emil Bove.
00:00Today, we announced a letter to the Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia regarding some, what seems like mischief, in his court.
00:12You will remember that in the deportation cases, the Chief District Judge here in the District of Columbia got angry about the bad behavior of the Trump lawyers in his courtroom with regard to those deportations.
00:30He felt that his orders had been ignored and violated, and that there was probable cause to begin contempt proceedings against the government.
00:41Well, neck deep in that decision to fail to obey court orders was none other than Émile Bovey.
00:52And if the proceedings had gone forward, there would have been a factual record developed of exactly who did what, exactly who said what, and very possibly a finding of contempt against said Émile Bovey.
01:06But two judges, two Trump judges to be exact, on the District Court of Appeals stopped the contempt proceeding.
01:17So, for three months, that contempt proceeding has been stalled, and in the meanwhile, what did they do?
01:25Took Émile Bovey's nomination and rammed it through the Judiciary Committee where we couldn't get answers to our questions.
01:31But the district judge would definitely have gotten answers, and he was stopped by these two Trump judges using a device called an administrative stay, which is usually a thing that limits out in a matter of days, sometimes even only hours.
01:50This one, they left in place for three months, creating a huge window for the folks to shove Émile Bovey through the Senate and onto the Court.
02:01That seems awfully suspicious to me, and we've asked the chief judge to have a look at it.
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