Tom Moran: Trump’s worst nomination yet. And that says a lot.
By: Tom Moran | Published: 2025-07-09 20:21:00 | Source: www.nj.com
President Donald Trump’s cabinet members are a ragtag band of loyalists, many of them profoundly unqualified, but all of them clear about their role: They are to serve as bobbleheads who do what they are told. It’s a pity and it’s dangerous, but he’s filling seats on his own team, the executive branch, and so was granted leeway.
Now, though, he’s trying to place a loyalist, a ferocious one named Emil Bove, on the Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, one notch below the Supreme Court. That’s not his team. That’s a separate branch, where no bobblehead belongs.
A judge is supposed to be a referee, but even Trump is boasting that his boy Bove is a cheerleader.
“He will do anything … that is necessary to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN,” Trump posted on social media. “Emil Bove…