“ Dear God ”: Democrats interrupt the vote on Trump’s controversial candidate

The Democrats of the Senate Judicial Committee stormed a meeting of the Executive Committee on Thursday a few moments before the Panel vote to advance the legal candidate of President Donald Trump, Emil Bove, to the entire Senate for a vote.

Senator Cory Booker, DN.J., urged the president of the Senate judicial committee, Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, before the vote to allow them to examine the allegations against Bove made by a former prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice, Erez Reuveni, in a report by denunciator.

Booker invoked rule 4 of the committee rules trying to put pressure for an additional debate time, which Grassley refused to recognize before ordering the vote – encouraging the Democratic members of the Panel to suddenly leave the courtroom.

Shortly before going out, Booker targeted Grassley. “What are you afraid of?” He broke out after Grassley tried to speak about him and keep the vote. “Debate this (appointment), put things in the case-dear God,” he said, “that’s why we are here.”

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Emil Bove, candidate for the American Court of Appeal for the third circuit, is expressed with the deputy prosecutor Todd Blanche before his confirmation audience in the Senate, June 25, 2025. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call via Getty) (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

“It lacks decency, it lacks decorum, it shows that you will not hear your colleagues,” Booker told Grassley in another attempt. “You are a decent man,” he said, imploring him to allow a small additional time window for the panel to debate before passing with the committee’s vote.

“Why are you doing this?” Booker has grown again.

“What do they tell you,” he said, referring to the Trump administration, “that makes you do something to violate the decorum, decency and respect for this committee to at least hear us?”

The almost an hour’s debate held before the Bove confirmation vote failed, and Trump’s candidate authorized the committee during an online party vote.

However, there have been strong objections made by other democrats in the panel, notably Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Ri, who joined Booker in the reduction of their republican colleagues in the panel for what they described as a lack of frankness and their refusal to consider the allegations made by Reundi.

They also noted the dozens of former federal and state judges, and hundreds of former federal prosecutors, who had the panel to reject the appointment of Bove to a life appointment on the federal bench.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Dr.I., left the Lunch of the Democrats of the Senate in Capitol on Tuesday, June 13, 2023. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)

Whitehouse, for his part, invoked Shakespeare: “There is something rotten in Denmark,” he said by expressing his opposition to the decision to pass with the confirmation vote.

Booker put an end to the Sharp exchange with Grassley by simply saying: “This is false, sir, and I join my colleagues to leave”, before pouring into the committee room.

Trump announced earlier this year the appointment of the main official of the Ministry of Justice and his former defense lawyer Emil Bove, to sit at the American Court of Appeal for the third circuit. The appointment of Bove immediately sparked an intense decline and an opposition of certain legislators and former prosecutors and judges.

This occurs while officials of the Trump administration have targeted the so-called “activist” judges whom they support block the president’s agenda and prevent him from promulgating his radical political objectives, including the repression of the administration against border security and immigration.

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Senator Cory Booker Dn.J., questions the secretary of internal security Kirstjen Nielsen during a hearing before the Senate judicial committee on Capitol Hill, on Tuesday January 16, 2018, in Washington. (AP photo / Jose Luis Magana)

The Bove confirmation path throughout the Senate’s room remains difficult and comes in the midst of increasing concerns concerning allegations made in the reporting report.

Addressing journalists after leaving the committee hall Thursday, Senator Richard Blumenthal, D-CT, described the decision of the Republicans to pass with the vote without considering the allegations of denunciation in a separate hearing, and despite the objections of the State of Democrats in the panel as a “blatant violation of the rules of the Committee”.

“I have not seen anything like this for 15 years in the American Senate,” he told journalists. “Just dominant, Roughshod, the rules of the committee to silence the members (on the concerns involving) candidates for life appointments” on the federal bench, he said.

“We can disagree as to whether they should be on the ground, but not on the rules that put them there.”

Shortly before the committed senator of Grassley noted a short time before the committee postpones the day when, in fact, this decision was not unprecedented. In fact, he said, this panel under a democratic majority, had done the same to the Panel Republicans during a marking hearing in November 2023.

He noted that the Democrats had pushed two of the judicial candidates of the president of the time, Joe Biden, Mustafa Kasubhai, to serve as a federal judge in Oregon, and Eumi K. Lee, appointed to signify to the American district court of the North District of California, despite objections and debate requests.

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“President Durbin then ordered the vote,” said Grassley, “just as I ordered the vote this time.”

“What we have done is not unprecedented-nor the actions of the minority, that is what we have done here in majority, he added, saying” we have to get things done “.