Gregg Nunziata in Politico
Executive Director Gregg Nunziata was quoted in Politico discussing President Trump’s efforts to reshape the federal judiciary.
In the piece, Ankush Khardori examines Trump’s recent nomination of Emil Bove to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and his public attacks on Leonard Leo, the former chair of the Federalist Society. Khardori argues these developments are deepening divisions on the right.
Nunziata raised serious concerns about Bove’s record:
‘His involvement in the Adams prosecution is really troubling, and it suggests someone who’s eager to do the bidding of his political masters before seriously looking at legal constraints and ethics,’
He also reflected on how the conservative legal movement’s narrow focus on the courts overlooked deeper constitutional breakdowns:
‘I think maybe for understandable reasons, historic reasons, or the nature of a group of lawyers,’ he said, ‘the Federalist Society and the broader conservative legal movement has been focused on the courts for two generations to such a degree that too many of its members ignored the real breakdown of constitutional values on the right and the country at large,’ as well as ‘the dysfunction in the executive and the legislative branches.’
‘They were focused on strengthening the courts by their lights,’ Nunziata continued, ‘while not seeing the rest of the constitutional structure decaying under their feet.’