President Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Emile Bouv, his former personal lawyer who turned into senior Justice, to serve as a judge in the Federal Appeal Court on Wednesday.
“It is a great honor to nominate Emile Bouv to act as a judge in the United States Appeal Court for the third circle,” Trump published the social truth. “Emil is a distinguished graduate in the Georgetown Law, and has been the position of American lawyer in the southern region of New York for nearly a decade, where he was the head of the terrorism and international drug unit.
“Emile is smart, difficult and respected by everyone,” he added. “He will end the weapon of justice, restore the rule of law, and do anything else necessary, makes America a great again. Emile Pov will never let you down!”
Bove is famous for its purification of job enforcement officials throughout the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Investigation Office before the expatriates asserted in the Senate, as well as its role in the decision of the Ministry of Justice to drop the prosecution of criminal corruption of the New York City mayor Eric Adams.
Donald Trump’s lawyer Emile Bouf is watching the post of President Donald Trump, to attend a hearing of the ruling before New York State Judge Juan Merchan in the Manhattan Criminal Court, January 10, 2025 in New York City.
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He will be nominated to work in the Court of Appeal in the third American district, which has a jurisdiction for the courts of provinces in Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Bove’s nomination means that some of its most controversial actions will be placed under the spotlight in what could be a bruising confirmation session before the Judicial Committee of the Senate.
The sources told ABC News that the Republicans expect a date for its confirmation session in the coming weeks.
Trump recruited Bouv to join the defense team in 2023 after accusing him of insulting classified documents and obstructing justice by former Special Adviser Jacques Smith. The Trump defense team also helped his cash prosecution in New York, which led to Trump’s conviction of 34 felony.
On March 21, 2024, a file of a file, the Ministry of Justice seal is seen on the platform before a press conference in the building of the Ministry of Justice in Washington, DC
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Pov has served as the Prosecutor at the US Prosecutor’s Office in the United States for the southern region of New York almost a decade and worked on many issues of terrorism, espionage and prominent drugs, including accusing Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro.
But Democrats are likely to look forward to scrutinizing the controversial early measures he has taken as an official who leads the Ministry of Justice in the first months of Trump in his post, when he took aggressive measures to transfer law enforcement resources and employees on national security and investigations in public corruption and towards the application of immigration.
Pova also faced criticism and resistance from the FBI leadership to start investigating hundreds of agents who helped investigate the January 6 attack on the Capitol, which led to a dramatic confrontation with senior job officials who accused them of “rebellion” due to the initial blocking of the agents.
New York City mayor Eric Adams is looking at the Jewish History Center, after two employees of the Israeli embassy were killed near the Jewish capital in Washington, DC, in New York, May 22, 2025.
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The role of Pova also escalated in dropping the issue of criminal corruption against Adams in exchange for his support for the enforcement of immigration into a crisis in both the Ministry of Justice and the US Prosecutor’s Office in Manhattan.
Several members of the trial team as well as senior officials in the General Integrity Department of the Ministry of Justice resigned after he claimed many of this arrangement, which would have refused the charges against Adams while leaving the capabilities that could be made again if he resisted the administration’s demands, and is largely due to supporters.
Ultimately, the judge supervised the Adams case permanently during the refusal of the Ministry of Justice’s request to reject the charges “without bias” and issued a severe evaluation describing the logical basis of the ministry as “unprecedented and breathtaking in his sweep.”
Judge Del Ho, in his ruling, said: “Everything here is slapping a deal: He rejected the indictment in exchange for immigration policy privileges.”
