Washington , Emil BowayA top justice department officer, who first served as the Criminal Rescue Advocate of President Trump, refused to dismiss the President’s possibility of running for the third term and did not condemn the 6 January attack on the Capital in questionnaire, considering his nomination for a lifetime appointment as a federal judge.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote next week whether Bowe’s nomination to serve in the US Court of appeals for 3 circuits is to carry forward or not. CBS News received the 165-Page questionnaire which Bov presented to the senators in response to his written questions.
In his answers, Bowe also wrote that he did not remember that 6 January 6 helped to supervise in criminal cases when he served for the southern district of New York at the US Attorney Office. In response to the question, “Do you condemn the rebellion on 6 January?” Bowe wrote: “The character depiction of events on 6 January is a matter of important political debate,” and that it would be unfair to address this question “given the ongoing litigation on 6 January 6 January 6 January.
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Bowe, who helped protect Mr. Trump in his hooliganism in New York in 2023, is an electric rod for Democrats, who has accused his role in the Department of Justice this year of making his role politically weapons to carry forward the goals of the President. Bov has served as the major colleague sub -Attorney General as Mr. Trump returned to the White House in January, and was a federal prosecutor in New York from 2012 to 2021.
In Senate questionnaire, Bowe argued his role Close corruption prosecution of New York Mayor Eric Adams The beginning of this year was abused. Bov was accused of advancing a Kwid Pro Quo in which the Department of Justice left its criminal case against Adams in exchange for the mayor supporting Mr. Trump’s immigration policies. Many prosecutors and officials of justice department Resigned In the result of the bole order to release the case.
Bowe told the senators that the decision to quit the allegations against Adams was “well under the prosecution of the prosecution” and the submission and statement of Adams’s own court of Adams denied false public allegations by the third party, which is about some kind of unfair quid pro quo. “
Bov was also accused of pressurizing the employees of the Department of Justice or pressurizing them to face possible employment functions, an allegation that they disputed in the questionnaire. He wrote, “I did not intend to force any DOJ Attorney to force, pressure, or motivate – to signing the proposal to dismiss the allegations against the mayor Edams,” he wrote, “he wrote.
Many Democratic Senators pressurized Bov to clarify in his questionnaire whether Bowe believes that the Constitution allows Mr. Trump to run for a third term, despite the 22nd amendment sanctions, stating that “no person would be selected for the President’s office more than twice.”
Bov replied on several occasions, “As a candidate for the third circuit, it would not be appropriate for me to find out how this amendment would apply to an abstract imaginary scenario.” “This question tries to give an answer to such an extent that can be taken as my response to the positions of the former judicial enrolled people on a comprehensive political or policy debate about the term limit, or to the statements by any political person, my response, my response, it would be unfair to offer any such comments as a judicial designated.”
Asked whether President Biden was duly elected in the 2020 election, Bowe replied, “President Biden was certified as the winner of the 2020 presidential election and served as the 46th President of the United States,” saying that “this” would “be inappropriate” about “This” will “” about “wide political or policy debate” about a single political debate about the 2020 election. “
Bowe wrote that he could not remember where he was on January 6, 2021, and he refused to reply if he would mark the Capital Siege as a “rebellion”.
He also admitted that he gave legal advice to Shri Trump about his forgiveness of the people involved in the attack. Asked if he supported the forgiveness of violent January 6 attackers, Bowe wrote, “As I explained in my confirmation, it would not be suitable for me, as a candidate, to comment on the use of President Trump’s forgiveness authority.”
Bov’s reactions noted their former legal work as Trump’s rescue lawyer, a role shared by a sub -Attorney General Todd Blanches. Bowe wrote that the legal team usually charged President Trump for a $ 650 per hour concessional rate for services by himself and Mr. Blanches. “
CBS has reached the Department of Justice to comment on News questionnaire. In a earlier statement of CBS News, White House spokesman Harrison Fields made Bowe’s qualification champions for lifetime appointments in the circuit court.
Fields said, “Emil Bowe is an incredibly talented legal mind and a staunch protector of the US Constitution that will make an excellent circuit court judge.” “Bowe is undeniably eligible for the role and has a career academically and during his legal career, which he should make a shoe-in for the third circuit. The President is committed to enroll the constitutionalists for the bench, which will restore law and order and end the weapons system, and eliminate the weapon system which will be completely molded.”