Bove's candidacy was sent to the U.S. Senate for a confirmation vote despite significant opposition from former judges and prosecutors.

Democrats walked out of a Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Trump DOJ official, Emil Bove, who the president's nominated to be a federal judge. NBC News’ Julie Tsirkin breaks it all down.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday walked out of the confirmation hearing for Emil Bove, President Trump's former defense lawyer, to serve as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

A group of former prosecutors are pushing to block the judicial nomination of Emil Bove, a former Trump attorney who they accused of being a "hatchet man," according to memos obtained by CBS News.

Some of these evasions are simply odd. Bove, who himself worked on January 6 prosecutions while working in the US Attorney’s office in Manhattan—an effort he has worked to downplay—told Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) that he wasn’t in Washington on January 6. But Bove also told Durbin, “I do not recall where I was on January 6, 2021.”

The ex-judges—co-led by the well-respected conservative J. Michael Luttig—highlighted controversies during Emil Bove’s short time at the Justice Department, including allegations he steered prosecutors to drop corruption charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams as part of a deal in which Adams would be expected to enforce Trump’s anti-immigration policy.

Officials from as far back as the Kennedy administration through the current Trump administration signed a letter opposing Bove's nomination.