Republicans Will Reward Emil Bove for Sending Innocent Men to a Concentration Camp

John Thune has invoked cloture for Emil Bove’s nomination to the Third Circuit. And while Lisa Murkowski voted against cloture and Susan Collins say she’ll vote against his confirmation, it nevertheless remains virtually certain that Republicans will confirm him.

Consider what that vote to confirm says Republican Senators believe qualifies a man for the job:

• He helped Trump avoid accountability for attacking the Senate in a bid to stay in power.
• He fired a bunch of people who prosecuted the people who attacked the Senate, effectively firing the people who upheld rule of law.
• He helped Trump avoid accountability for stealing over a hundred classified documents and store them in a broom closet.
• He helped a really corrupt Democrat who allegedly put his own pocketbook and Turkish interests above safety considerations to avoid accountability as part of a quid pro quo deal meant to undermine New York self-rule.
• He gave the order that doomed 233 men, many of them innocent of any crime, to spend four months in a concentration camp.

It’s the last one that really alarms me.

The Republican Party is preparing to reward Emil Bove with a lifetime seat on an appellate court because he sent hundreds of men to a concentration camp, many based on little more than their tattoos.

If you have Republican Senators, please call them and let them know you see what they are doing.

Update: ProPublica has a new profile of the men Bove sent to CECOT. For each man, they describe circumstances of his detention, whether he had any criminal charges, and whether he had tattoos (as a majority do).