Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) condemned Tuesday confirmation of controversial nominee Emil Bove to serve as a judge on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, after a series of whistleblowers accused him of a history of malfeasance.

“This is a genuinely bad guy," Whitehouse said late Tuesday in an appearance on MSNBC's "The Briefing."

"He was in the Department of Justice for all of six months and managed to rack up three separate, significant episodes of prosecutorial misconduct,” he told host Jen Psaki, adding, “I mean, most prosecutors go a lifetime without doing that."

Bove has been the subject of three different........

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