A fired Justice Department lawyer claims the nation’s top law enforcers plotted to ignore judges and mislead courts. The whistleblower, Erez Reuveni, says he saw senior officials—including a Trump judicial nominee—talk openly about breaking the law to speed up deportations. If true, these allegations could shake public trust in the justice system to its core.
Reuveni spent nearly 15 years at the Justice Department, earning praise from both Republican and Democratic leaders. He was no outsider.
His career focused on immigration law, and he rose to Acting Deputy Director for the Office of Immigration Litigation this spring. But in March 2025, things changed.
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Reuveni says he was ordered to help deport Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an undocumented immigrant, to a prison in El Salvador.
The court had told the government to halt the deportation. But Reuveni claims his bosses told him to ignore the judge’s order.
At a tense March meeting, Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove reportedly suggested the department should just tell the court to “f*** you” and do what it wanted.
Bove, a former Trump personal attorney, is now up for a lifetime seat on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals. He’s scheduled for a Senate confirmation hearing this week. His nomination comes as these explosive allegations surface, raising serious questions about his fitness for the bench.
Reuveni says the pressure to break the law didn’t stop with one case. He describes a pattern: top officials discussed misleading judges, withholding facts, and delaying responses so deportations could go forward. He claims he was ordered to file court briefs that misrepresented what happened. When he refused, he was placed on administrative leave. Days later, he was fired.
The whistleblower’s 35-page complaint, now in the hands of Congress and the Justice Department’s inspector general, details what he calls “violations of law, rules, or regulations, and the abuse of authority by DOJ and White House personnel.” He says these actions put noncitizens at “substantial and specific” risk.
The Justice Department has not publicly responded to the full complaint. Trump’s team calls Reuveni a disgruntled ex-employee. But Reuveni’s attorneys say there are emails, texts, and phone records that back up his story. They argue he was punished for doing his ethical duty—telling the truth to a federal judge.
The case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia is at the center of this storm. Garcia, mistakenly deported to a Salvadoran prison, was supposed to stay in the U.S. while his case played out. Reuveni told the judge about the error. That honesty, he says, cost him his job.
This isn’t the first time the Trump administration has clashed with the courts over immigration. But rarely have such direct allegations of lawbreaking and deception reached this level. The complaint suggests a coordinated effort to undermine judicial authority, not just isolated mistakes.
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What happens next? The Senate must decide if Bove, accused of suggesting open defiance of the courts, should become a federal judge. The inspector general may launch a full investigation. And the public is left to wonder: who polices the police when the Justice Department itself is accused of breaking the law?
For more on whistleblower protections and the role of the Justice Department, check out the U.S. Office of Special Counsel and the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.
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