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By Caitlin Tremblay

Good morning. Senior DOJ official Emil Bove is expected to face sharp questions as a Senate panel considers his nomination to the 3rd Circuit, a day after a whistleblower alleged Bove was willing to defy court orders. Plus, returned deportee Kilmar Abrego Garcia is due in court over his bail conditions; and Apple is in court over wireless patents. If lettuce can grow in the desert we can power through Wednesday. Let’s get going.

Trump nominee Bove faces Senate panel following claim he was willing to defy courts

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Senior DOJ official Emil Bove is expected to face sharp questions from Democratic lawmakers today as he appears before a U.S. Senate panel on his nomination by President Trump to serve on the 3rd Circuit. Here’s what to know:

Bove was Trump’s personal lawyer and defended the president in a criminal case stemming from hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Trump nominated Bove to the 3rd Circuit last month citing his experience as a terrorism prosecutor and work to end the “weaponization” of the legal justice system against Trump and his supporters. Read more about Bove’s experience here.
Bove’s appearance today before the Republican-led Senate Judiciary Committee is likely to include questions from Democrats about his tumultuous tenure in DOJ leadership over the last several months, including his decision to drop a corruption case against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Bove’s appearance before the panel comes the day after a whistleblower complaint from a former DOJ official, Erez Reuveni, alleged that Bove suggested to colleagues in March, in profane terms, that the government may disregard court orders blocking Trump from using emergency powers to deport migrants. Read more about that here.
Bove, now the principal deputy assistant attorney general, also will likely face questions about his demand for the FBI to turn over a list of agents who worked on investigations into the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Read more here.

Coming up today

Trump administration officials face a deadline today to respond to a motion by lawyers for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, asking U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis to impose sanctions on officials for allegedly failing to provide information on its efforts to facilitate his return. Abrego is also due to appear in federal court in Nashville, Tennessee, today for a conference over the conditions of his release after a judge denied prosecutors' bid to detain him pending trial and is likely to be placed into immigration custody.
Do Kwon, the South Korean cryptocurrency entrepreneur behind two digital currencies that lost an estimated $40 billion in 2022, is due in U.S. court for a conference ahead of his trial on U.S. fraud charges.
Rafael Caro Quintero, an alleged Mexican cartel boss accused of killing a DEA agent in 1985, is due back in U.S. court for a status conference on drug trafficking charges. Prosecutors are expected to provide an update on their considerations on whether to seek the death penalty.
Spanish patent owner TOT Power Control will try to convince a federal jury in Delaware that Apple's wireless chips infringe an inventor's patents related to wireless communications.

Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes.

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Two U.S. appeals court judges appointed by President Trump told lawmakers that they viewed calls to impeach judges over their rulings as inappropriate and that the judiciary needed more resources to bolster security for members of the bench. Read more here.
A federal judge denied University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax’s bid for a preliminary injunction to block the university from imposing sanctions after an investigation found her comments "discriminatory and derogatory." The injunction bid is part of a discrimination suit she filed against the university in January.
Moves: Dechert added former SEC attorney Robert Shapiro as a partner in its financial services practice group … IP attorney Patrick Michael left Hogan Lovells to join Greenberg Traurig as a shareholder … Former DOJ attorney Keighle Joyce joined Morrison Foerster’s congressional investigations group … Winston & Strawn added restructuring partner Jonathan Levine from McDermott … Banking and credit partner Bryce Kaufman moved to Simpson Thacher from Latham … Restructuring partner John Storz left Paul Hastings for Pillsbury.

$450 million

That’s the estimated annual cost of a new temporary migrant detention facility that officials are calling "Alligator Alcatraz" due to its remote and inhospitable location in the middle of the Florida Everglades. The number of people in federal immigration detention has risen sharply from 39,000 when President Trump took office to 56,000 as of June 15, according to U.S. government data, and the Trump administration has pushed to find more space. Read more.

"The district court's ruling of (Monday) night is a lawless act of defiance that, once again, disrupts sensitive diplomatic relations and slams the brakes on the executive's lawful efforts to effectuate third-country removals."