Senate Letter: “Reject Emil Bove’s Nomination”
Gregg Nunziata, Executive Director of the Society for the Rule of Law Institute, submitted a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing Emil Bove’s nomination to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, on the grounds that his record is “is deeply incompatible with a lifetime appointment to federal judicial service.”
Gregg is the former Chief Nominations Counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a position from which he helped confirm numerous conservative federal judges, and which is currently considering Bove’s nomination. He writes:
The Society for the Rule of Law Institute has never opposed a judicial nominee, and we do not do so lightly. President Donald Trump has a strong record on judicial appointments to date, in our view. His past appointees generally exhibit judicial excellence and a commitment to the rule of law. Many of them have proven their mettle in contentious litigation involving the president or his policies.
The Bove nomination represents a stark and apparently intentional break from this successful model and should raise concerns across the ideological spectrum. All members of the committee, but especially our fellow conservatives, should pause before advancing such a troubling nomination …
Our Constitutional system demands judges who respect the separation of powers, act with impartiality, and heed legal—not political—principles. Mere credentials, even excellent ones, cannot establish the capacity to perform that role. We believe that a demonstrated adherence to the doctrines of originalism and textualism best predicts whether a nominee can meet those demands. We are confident, however, that Mr. Bove’s record at the Justice Department, including manipulating prosecutions for political or policy ends, is deeply incompatible with a lifetime appointment to federal judicial service.
For these grave reasons, the Senate must reject Mr. Bove’s nomination.
Read the letter here. To be connected with spokespeople for comment, please contact [email protected].
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