Bove reportedly called a third-term president an "abstract hypothetical scenario," even though the 22nd Amendment forbids it.

Emil Bove declined to rule out the possibility of a third Trump term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel.

The Justice Department pushed back Thursday against a former employee-turned-leaker who alleged senior officials instructed attorneys to disregard federal court orders, calling him a “disgruntled” ex-staffer engaged in a politically timed smear campaign against President Donald Trump‘s federal appeals court nominee Emil Bove.

President Trump’s nomination of a high Department of Justice official, Emil Bove, to a converted seat on the Third United States Appeals Circuit is prompting a furious backlash from some corners of the legal establishment — and one of his former subordinates.