Washington – Emil BoveOne of the senior officials of the Ministry of Justice who previously was a lawyer for the criminal defense of President Trump, refused to exclude the possibility that the president presents himself for a third term and did not denounce the attack of January 6 against the Capitol in a questionnaire subject to a panel of the Senate, taking into account his appointment for a life appointment as a federal judge.
The Senate’s Judicial Committee is expected to vote next week on the opportunity to advance the appointment of Bove to signify to the American Court of Appeal for the 3rd circuit. CBS News obtained the 165 -page questionnaire that Bove submitted to senators in response to their written questions.
In his answers, Bove also wrote that he does not remember the criminal affairs of January 6 that he helped supervise when he served at the US prosecutor’s office for the South New York District. In response to the question “do you denounce the insurrection of January 6?” Bove wrote: “The characterization of the events of January 6 is an important question of political debate”, and said that it would be “inappropriate to answer this question” given by the defendants of the defendants of January 6.
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Bove, who helped defend Trump during his crime trial in New York in 2023, was a lightning rod for the Democrats who accused him of having politically armed his role at the Ministry of Justice this year to pursue the president’s objectives. Bove has been the main vice-procurer general since his return to the White House in January and was a federal prosecutor in New York from 2012 to 2021.
In the Senate questionnaire, Bove pleaded its role in closing the pursuit of the corruption of the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, The sooner this year was wrong. Bove was accused of having pushed a counterpart in which the Ministry of Justice will abandon its criminal case against Adams in exchange for the mayor supporting the immigration policies of Mr. Trump. Several prosecutors and officials of the Ministry of Justice resigned In the fallout from the order of Bove to delete the case.
Bove told senators that the decision to seek to abandon the accusations against Adams was “well within the framework of the discretionary power of prosecution” and that the own submissions and declarations of the Court of Adams “refute false public allegations by third parties concerning a sort of quid pro
Bove was also accused of having put pressure on employees of the Ministry of Justice to support the effort or to face any employment actions, an accusation which he disputed in the questionnaire. “I never intended to force, put pressure or induce an MJ lawyer – through employment measures, threats, rewards or otherwise – to sign the request for the rejection of the accusations against the mayor Adams,” he wrote.
Several Democratic senators have pressed Bove in their questionnaire to clarify if Bove thinks that the Constitution allows Mr. Trump to present himself for a third term, despite the restrictions of the 22nd amendment, which stipulates that “no person will be elected to the office of the president twice”.
“As a candidate for the third circuit, it would not be appropriate for me to explain how this amendment would apply in an abstract hypothetical scenario,” replied Bove on several occasions. “Insofar as this question aims to arouse an answer which could be considered as a broader examination on the political or political debate concerning the limits of the term or on the declarations by any political figure, my answer, in accordance with the positions of previous judicial candidates, is that it would be inappropriate to offer such a comment as a judicial candidate.”
When he was asked if President Biden had been duly elected during the 2020 elections, Bove replied: “President Biden was certified as the winner of the 2020 presidential election and was the 46th President of the United States”, adding that it would be inappropriate “for him to oppose” the broader political or political figure “.
Bove wrote that he does not remember where he was on January 6, 2021, but that he was not in Washington. He refused to answer if he would characterize the headquarters of the Capitol as an “insurrection”.
He also admitted that he had provided Trump legal advice on his pardons involved in the attack. When asked if he supported the forgives of the violent attackers of January 6, Bove wrote: “As I explained during my confirmation hearing, this would not be appropriate for me, as a candidate, to comment on the use by President Trump.”
Bove’s responses noted his previous legal work as a lawyer for the defense of Trump, a role shared by the US deputy prosecutor Todd Blanche. Bove wrote that the legal team “generally accused President Trump a reduced rate of $ 650 per hour for the services by myself and Mr. Blanche”.
CBS News contacted the Ministry of Justice to comment on the questionnaire. In a statement prior to CBS News, the White House spokesman Harrison Fields defended the qualifications of Bove for life appointment to the short circuit.
“Emil Bove is an incredibly talented legal spirit and an ardent defender of the American Constitution who will make an excellent judge of the circuit court,” said Fields. “Bove is undoubtedly qualified for the role and has a career filled with distinctions, both on the school level and throughout his legal career, which should make him a shoo-in for the third circuit. The president is determined to appoint constitutionalists on the bench which will perfectly restore the law and end and end the armament of the legal system, and Emil Bove which goes perfectly.”
