President Trump has nominated Emil Bove, his former personal defense attorney and current Justice Department official, to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Among other things, Emil Bove threatened to fire attorneys in the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section if they refused to file a motion to dismiss the corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams, and he accused FBI leaders of “insubordination” after they refused to identify agents involved in the January 6 Capitol insurrection investigations.

Trump also announced new nominees for a federal district court in Florida. The Alliance for Justice this week urged senators to oppose Trump’s previously announced judicial nominees, warning they all “demonstrated their opposition to the protections of the law and their loyalty to the Trumpian agenda.”