Trump nominates his former defense attorney Emil Bove to serve as appellate judge

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Trump nominates his former defense attorney Emil Bove to serve as appellate judge (Reuters)

(Reuters) -President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he is nominating U.S. Justice Department official Emil Bove, a lawyer who previously defended Trump in a case in which he was convicted of criminal charges involving hush money paid to a porn star, to serve as a federal appeals court judge.

Trump in a post on his social media platform Truth Social announced that he is nominating Bove, currently the principal associate deputy attorney general, to serve as a life-tenured judge on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Bove represented Trump at his criminal trial in Manhattan last year alongside Todd Blanche, who is currently serving as deputy attorney general.

The jury in the case found Trump guilty of falsifying documents to cover up a payment made ahead of the 2016 U.S. election to silence porn star Stormy Daniels, who has said she had a sexual encounter with Trump years earlier. Trump has denied such an encounter and is appealing his conviction.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-nominates-emil-bove-serve-192041293.html

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1. What good is a judge that should recuse himself from half his cases?

This is just a further power grab.