RE: Pretty schitty article. What is the controversy about the

Posted on: July 17, 2025 at 12:00:17 CT

On Wednesday, more than 900 former Justice Department lawyers signed a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing “deep concern” about the nomination of Mr. Bove.

In the letter, the former department lawyers suggested that Mr. Bove had disgraced the department during his six months there, and that his confirmation would be “intolerable.”

When pressed on his actions, Mr. Bove often refused to answer, citing attorney-client privilege and department rules against discussing ongoing investigations.

Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, ripped the Republican majority for failing to hold Mr. Bove to account for his actions.

“We can’t even get answers,” Mr. Whitehouse said, shortly before Mr. Grassley shut down the Democrats.

The entire process, he added in exasperation, “more resembled a rackets hearing from the Godfather” than a good-faith airing of the facts.

But the most defining episode of his tenure was the battle he waged against his former colleagues in the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York over the administration’s request to drop bribery charges against Mr. Adams — who had personally appealed to the White House for a legal reprieve.

Mr. Bove pressured top prosecutors in the office to drop the case. He claimed that the charges had been brought by an overzealous Biden-appointed U.S. attorney and argued that the case would hinder Mr. Adams’s capacity to cooperate with the White House on immigration enforcement.

The interim U.S. attorney in Manhattan, Danielle R. Sassoon, resigned rather than sign off on Mr. Bove’s command.