Trump Nominates Former Defense Lawyer Emil Bove as Appellate Judge

Bove has been serving as the principal associate deputy attorney general.

Emil Bove in a file photograph. Jeenah Moon/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

President Donald Trump on May 28 said he nominated one of his former defense attorneys to serve as a judge on a federal appeals court.

Trump said he was choosing Emil Bove, the former lawyer, to become a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.