Judicial Ethics
Judicial Ethics Joyce Vance Dec 11 Yesterday, Third Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Emil Bove attended an event where Donald Trump spoke. That’s an unusual thing for a federal judge to do, even when the president in question is his former client. Federal judges usually avoid political events like the plague. Doing so would seem especially prudent when the Judge in question is newly appointed to the bench after a confirmation hearing that included testimony about the role he played in the government’s decision to ignore Judge James Boasberg’s order in the El Salvador deportation case . Bove has said that testimony from a whistleblower claiming he said “D.O.J. would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order,” isn’t true. He recently submitted a declaration in that case that he provided “privileged legal advice” to others in that matter, without going into the substance of it. Attending a presidential speech in th...