Here is a name everyone should know--Erez Reuveni

You should know Erez Reuveni--the DOJ whistleblower--who has documented judicial nominee Emil Bove's disdain for the rule of law and U.S. Constitution.

The insistence that the Trump administration can do whatever it wants irrespective or rules, laws, or court orders; the demand that career officials are all in or must get the heck out; the willingness to obfuscate or just lie about what the administration has done, is doing, or means to do—both internally and in litigation—and the indignant rejection of any checks or mechanisms of accountability because they have a mandate from voters and Trump is deweaponizing the Justice Department and because there’s a unitary executive, reported Lawfare.  

What’s different about Reuveni is that he has brought a remarkable collection of receipts to the conversation. It’s not just the 27-page whistleblower complaint, which details in carefully crafted prose three separate incidents of the administration behaving—and demanding that he behave—unethically or illegally over a remarkably short period of time. It’s not just the 150 pages of supporting documentation, which includes multiple text exchanges, emails, and phone records supporting Reuveni’s claims. It’s the way all of this material intersects with an already-vibrant public record in the three cases at issue: The JGG case on Alien Enemy Act deportations to El Salvador, the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case, and the DVD case on deportations to third countries.

One can say, I suppose, that the public here has only one side of the story—a document dump from Reuveni and nothing from Bove or the other officials he accuses. But that’s not quite true. In all three of these cases, the government has had ample opportunity to explain its position before the courts, and in all three, the government has made its position very clear: It’s a big middle finger.

What’s more, Bove has been asked about Reuveni’s allegations specifically and under oath that he said the Justice Department might have to tell the courts, “fuck you” if they tried to stop Alien Enemies Act removals that had to proceed “no matter what.” He responded that he did not recall saying that but pointedly did not deny doing so.

Drew Ensign, an official Reuveni accuses of actively misleading the court, actually had an opportunity before Judge James Boasberg to clear up the matter Reuveni described, which took place on March 15 when the ACLU and Judge Boasberg were trying to make sure that Alien Enemy Act deportations were not happening illegally and were trying to determine whether planes were, in fact, currently deporting people or imminently going to do so.

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