Breaking: Dem Senators Dramatically Walk Out Of Hearing As Booker Rips Grassley Over Emil Bove Vote - Forbes

[TexasTowelie]

Democratic Senators storm out of the Senate Judiciary Committee as Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) rails against Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for advancing the confirmation of controversial judicial nominee Emil Bove.

[johnnyfins]

1. Grassley was around when the Dead Sea

was just sick. I guess he wants to go fascist before he retires.

[bdamomma]

2. Fuck Grassley

They are traitors to the Constitution!!!!!!!!! Damn them all. Working for the People???? Or working for the tyrant!!!

[Wild blueberry]

3. Thank you, Senator Booker

Grassley you're an asshole.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. Maddow Blog-Republicans shrug off laundry list of scandals, advance Emil Bove's judicial nomination

Bove is arguably the single-most controversial circuit court nominee in modern American history. Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t care.

By some measures, Emil Bove, a former Trump defense attorney, is one of the most controversial circuit court nominees in modern American history, opposed by several dozen former judges and 900+ former DOJ lawyers.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee didn’t care.

— Steve Benen (@stevebenen.com) 2025-07-17T15:09:18.340Z

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/emil-bove-trump-judge-nomination-senate-republicans-rcna218833

That didn’t happen. NBC News reported:

A spokesperson for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley says that Bove’s nomination had been reported out of committee to the full Senate, even though Democrats on the committee walked out in protest of the lack of debate and the refusal to hold a vote on whether to hold a hearing with a whistleblower before they voted.

Shortly before the vote, the panel's Democratic members walked out of the hearing room in protest, with Democratic Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey describing the process as "insane."
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In fact, after the committee's Republicans voted in support of Bove, members of the Democratic minority, led by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, suggested the issue of whether Bove was actually reported out was still an open question and may be referred to the Senate parliamentarian because, as Democrats argued, Republicans broke procedural rules.......

Just as importantly, if not more so, Erez Reuveni, a 15-year veteran Justice Department prosecutor, recently came forward as a whistleblower to tell senators that Bove repeatedly endorsed ignoring court orders and deliberately misleading judges. In a case involving the Alien Enemies Act and the administration’s alleged violation of a court order regarding deportation flights, Reuveni also described a meeting during which Bove “stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘f--- you’ and ignore any such court order.”.....

Bove’s nomination now advances to the Senate floor for confirmation. To defeat him, four GOP senators would have to break ranks with the party, which seems unlikely. Watch this space.

trump is looking to appoint Bove to the SCOTUS when either Alito or Thomas retires

[in2herbs]

5. The Rs have broken every law and the Constitution. Yes, this is blood boiling, but if Bove gets in, when

the Ds are in charge IMO Bove can be removed from his judicial position, just like any other appointee of f47s. And the Ds should be shouting this from the rooftops and making sure it is in the record.

The Rs are not playing by the rules, the Ds should not either and any D that exhibits the behavior of "go along to get along" should be kicked out of office.