Emil Bove defended President Trump from some of the gravest abuses of the criminal justice system in our nation’s history. These abuses include high-profile lawfare such as the criminal prosecution resulting from President Trump’s legitimate challenge of the very questionable 2020 election, the prosecution involving the business records in New York, and a challenge to the appointment of Special Counsel Jack Smith to investigate alleged “election interference” by the president.

In defending the president in these matters and others, Bove has proven to be a nominee of tested courage, true to his declaration before the Senate Judiciary Committee that he is “not afraid to make difficult decisions . . . . [is] not anybody’s henchman . . . . [has] taken an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States more than once, and [has] honored that oath.”

It is important to note that at the peak of the lawfare lodged against President Trump, the president’s attorneys faced penalties as severe as disbarment, indictment or other sanctions as a result of zealously advocating for their client. Bove’s defense of President Trump is courageous and admirable. 

Despite, or perhaps because of, his demonstrated courage, Bove’s nomination [to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit], now proceeding to the floor of the full Senate for a vote, has been challenged by his and President Trump’s opponents, including questionable allegations of misconduct in dealings with attorneys and litigants, allegations of criminal contempt, and the disapproval of over 75 former state and federal judges who penned a July 15 letter to the Senate opposing Bove’s........

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