A watchdog group launched a records lawsuit Thursday to obtain communications involving Emil Bove, a senior Justice Department (DOJ) leader at the center of a recent whistleblower complaint.

President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Emil Bove, was pushed to repeatedly deny several accusations of corruption – one made by a whistleblower at the Justice Department – during his confirmation hearing Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Bove is alleged to have encouraged defiance of court orders.

WASHINGTON >> U.S. Senate Democrats today released internal Justice Department text messages and emails to corroborate claims by a whistleblower who alleged that President Donald Trump’s judicial nominee Emil Bove suggested that department lawyers could defy court orders to carry out mass deportations.