Emil Bove’s 3rd Circuit nom faces more opposition

+ Senate committee expected to vote today.

Global news you can trust. Download the Reuters App. The Daily Docket The Daily Docket A newsletter by Reuters and Westlaw By Caitlin Tremblay Good morning. More than 900 DOJ alumni warned the Senate against confirming Emil Bove to the 3rd Circuit. The Judiciary Committee is set to vote on advancing his nomination today. Plus, the 9th Circuit will consider whether the Trump administration can eliminate union bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers, and venture capitalist Marc Andreesen will take the stand in an $8 billion Meta trial. Happy Thursday. Hold on for one more day.   Hundreds of DOJ alumni warn Senate against Trump's appellate judge nominee   ANGELA WEISS/Pool via REUTERS The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on whether to advance President Trump's nominee for the 3rd Circuit, Emil Bove. Here's what to know: Bove is a senior DOJ official and Trump's former defense attorney. Bove's nomination has attracted opposition after a former DOJ whistleblower released text messages and emails showing Bove suggesting that department lawyers could defy court orders to carry out mass deportations. Bove has denied the claims. Reuters exclusively reported this week that the DOJ explored bringing criminal charges against Minnesota judges and defense lawyers who discussed requesting virtual court hearings to protect defendants from being arrested by federal immigration officers. FBI agents in Minneapolis opened a preliminary inquiry after Bove ordered prosecutors in a January 21 memo to pursue potential criminal cases against "state and local actors" for impeding immigration enforcement. Read more about that here. Yesterday, more than 900 former DOJ employees warned the Republican-controlled Judiciary Committee against confirming Bove, according to a letter seen by Reuters. Read more about that here. "We are all alarmed by DOJ leadership's recent deviations from constitutional principles and institutional guardrails," the former department employees wrote, adding that Bove had "disgraced" the department. Read the full letter here. The letter was signed by officials who served from as far back as the Kennedy administration through the current Trump administration, and it was organized by Justice Connection, a new group launched to advocate on behalf of DOJ workers. Earlier this week, 76 former federal and state judges also sent a letter to the committee in opposition to Bove's nomination. Read that letter here. Coming up today The 9th Circuit will hear an appeal of a district court order that blocked the Trump administration from eliminating union bargaining for hundreds of thousands of federal workers at 21 agencies. The 9th Circuit put a brief pause on the order last week. Read the district court order. Venture capitalist Marc Andreesen is expected to take the stand to defend against allegations by investors that Meta's board should be held liable for billions of dollars in fines for privacy violations by Facebook. The eight-day bench trial also seeks to force Mark Zuckerberg to divest profits from selling Meta stock.  The Massachusetts cities of Chelsea and Somerville will urge a federal judge to block the Trump administration from withholding federal funding from the two so-called sanctuary jurisdictions for declining to cooperate with the president's hardline immigration crackdown. Read the complaint. Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. More top news DOJ fires federal prosecutor Maurene Comey, daughter of ex-FBI head James Comey CFTC begins staff firings, agency source says U.S. citizen says he was jailed for three days after California immigration raid Industry insight Just a few moves this morning: Richmond Flowers joined Squire Patton Boggs' real estate practice from Burr & Forman … Carolyn Austin returned to ArentFox Schiff's real estate practice from Greenspoon Marder … Robert Threlkeld and Elliott Coward moved to Husch Blackwell's healthcare practice from Morris Manning & Martin. $4.5 billion That's how much money in grants FEMA approved over the past four years to fund infrastructure upgrades to protect against natural disasters. A group of 20 mostly Democrat-led states filed a lawsuit in Boston federal court seeking to block the Trump administration from terminating the grant program. Read the complaint. In the courts The Trump administration told the D.C. Circuit that it is in settlement talks in a regulatory dispute that was at the center of the U.S. Supreme Court's blockbuster ruling last year curbing agency powers. Read the filing. The 9th Circuit was poised to uphold a block on the Trump administration stripping nearly 350,000 Venezuelan immigrants of protections against deportation, with one judge singling out "arguably racist" comments by President Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Read more about the arguments.  Amazon defeated a proposed class action by Prime Video subscribers over its introduction of commercials. Read more here. The NCAA persuaded the 7th Circuit to reject an order that allowed expanded player eligibility, in a dispute over its "five-year rule" that the organization said preserves distinctions between student and professional athletes. Read the ruling. U.S. District Judge Evelyn Padin in New Jersey rejected Novartis' request for a preliminary injunction to stop MSN Pharmaceuticals from selling a generic version of the blockbuster heart medication Entresto. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball in Salt Lake City dismissed a lawsuit by a Utah brokerage accusing the National Association of Realtors of too tightly controlling rules for home sales and purchases in the U.S., causing consumers to pay higher prices. Read the ruling. Around the world Canada's First Nations launch constitutional challenge of legislation Mexico imposes administrative fines on U.S.-sanctioned financial institutions Former Tibet Communist Party secretary gets suspended death sentence over bribery China hands 3-1/2-year prison sentence to Astellas' Japanese employee, Nikkei says Attorney Analysis Squire Patton Boggs' Jens Petry and Tom Gassmann consider the challenges, risks and benefits of using AI in dispute resolution. 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