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The members of the Senate judicial committee voted on Thursday to advance the president Donald AssetFormer defense lawyer Emil Bove to serve as a judge for the American Court of Appeal for the third circuit, eliminating his appointment of the Committee to the full Senate for a vote.

The close vote came after about an hour of net debate by the Democrats of the Panel, which stormed the committee room shortly before the vote. Sense. Cory Booker, D-NJ, and Sheldon Whitehouse, D-NY, had unexpectedly urged the president of the Senate judicial committee, Chuck Grassley of the Iowa, to allow more time to examine the appointment of Bove, citing the concerns made by a former prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice and Reflets, Erez Rebeni.

The absence of a franchise prompted Whitehouse to declare: “There is something rotten in Denmark,” invoking Shakespeare and Booker, a few moments later, to appeal without success in the “decency and the decorum” of Grassley.

“Debate the appointment, put things on the disc – dear God is why we are here,” burst Booker. “What are you afraid of?”

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FBI director Kash Patel and Emil Bove listen to President Donald Trump, the Washington Ministry of Justice, DC, March 14, 2025. (Roberto Schmidt / AFP via Getty Images)

In the end, their call failed and Booker joined the Democrats in the panel to get out of the room before the vote.

The narrow confirmation vote of the Republicans on the panel advances the appointment of Bove to the complete Senate for a vote. This comes then that Bove, a former federal prosecutor to load hard, that Trump installed earlier this year as senior official of the Ministry of Justice, faces a new control over his role in the administration. In recent weeks, a group of former federal judges and several Democrats of the Committee has urged senators to reject their appointment.

If he is confirmed by the Senate, he would serve a meeting for life on the federal bench,, which has jurisdiction in the districts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.

Grassley rejected a request on Tuesday afternoon of the Democrats of the Panel to hold a second series of hearings on the appointment of Bove, noting that, under the Democratic majority, the panel rejected at least four requests of this type made by the Republicans.

“Several times during the last administration, the then, the alarm, Durbin said” that there can be a set of rules for the Republicans in this committee and another set of rules for the Democrats “,” said Grassley. “I agree with this declaration and I intend to join the previous then Durbin.”

Grassley added that Bove had participated in a long confirmation audience last month, testifying under the subject of the allegations of denunciation formulated by a former prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice.

Bove said under oath at the time: “I never advised a lawyer for the Ministry of Justice to violate a court order.” Grassley also noted that Bove had provided the members of the 165 pages of answers written to their questions.

“Following a complete review of the additional documents that you published after the hearing and discussed in the media, I do not think they are taking care of a fault by Mr. Bove,” said Grassley, describing plans to move forward with the vote as expected.

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Washington, DC - September 05: (LR) The lawyers for former president Donald Trump (LR) Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and John Lauro leave the Federal Court after a hearing on the Trump electoral engineers case on September 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. This is the first hearing since the decision of the Supreme Court on Presidential Immunity, judging 6-3 that the presidents have a certain level of immunity against prosecution when they operated within their

The lawyers for former President Donald Trump (LR), Todd Blanche, Emil Bove and John Lauro, left the Federal Court after an audience on the Trump elections interference case on September 5, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

“I am nobody of anyone,” said Bove to the committee during his confirmation hearing last month. “I am not an executor. I am a lawyer for a small town, which did not expect to be in an arena like this.”

Bove, who spent almost 10 years as a prosecutor for the South New York district, previously represented Trump as his personal lawyer in two criminal cases following his first mandate as president. As a prosecutor and the Ministry of Justice, he acquired his reputation for his fierce – and sometimes aggressive – style of fierce leadership.

A longtime defense lawyer who met with Bove in New York told Fox News Digital that the candidate was an arrogant “intimidator” and people from Browbeat.

At the Ministry of Justice, Bove has also become the man behind some of the most controversial actions in the administration, including the decision to abolish federal corruption accusations against the mayor of New York, Eric Adams, has prompted some officials to resign rather than carrying out his walking orders.

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Trump appointed a life appointment to the American Court of Appeal for the third circuit. (Getty Images)

These allegations were detailed in part by an explosive denunciation report last month of the former prosecutor of the Ministry of Justice, Erez Reveni, who also detailed the role of Bove in the escape of certain federal prosecutors involved in the surveys on the riots of January 6 in that

According to Reveni, Bove “explicitly plotted to violate legal orders” and ordered law enforcement agents “to engage in illegal acts”, among others.

Reveni, a 15 -year -old doj veteran who was dismissed after having struggled to defend the deportations of the Trump administration in an American legal case in Maryland, said in the denunciation complaint that Bove shocked long -standing career officials ganant of immigration affairs by telling them that they should “have to consider the courts of the courts F *** of the court. “

The report has aroused new concerns of former judgesIncluding a group of more than 75 former federal judges and states, which exhorted legislators on Tuesday to reject the appointment of Bove – citing what they described in a letter like its “flagrant assessment” at the Ministry of Justice, according to the allegations of Rebeni.

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“These are not actions of a person engaged on equality under the law,” said the group in a letter. “On the contrary, they reflect a disturbing scheme of mistreating the discretionary power of prosecution to protect political allies.”

The vice-prosecutor General Todd Blanche, who has worked closely with Bove for years, told Fox News Digital in an interview before the confirmation hearing of the Judicial Committee of the Senate last month that Bove is a “frightening brilliant lawyer”, and described his appointment to the Court of Appeal as “Brain”.

Blanche described his colleague as “the sweetest, most empathetic and larger person with which anyone could work”.

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