President Donald Trump has nominated several of his personal attorneys to top legal posts in his administration, but his nomination of Emil Bove to the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals marks the first time he has selected one of his lawyers to serve on the federal bench.

Emil Bove, President Donald Trump's former defense attorney who took aggressive steps to enforce Trump's political agenda at the Justice Department in the early months of his presidency, told the Senate Judiciary Committee,

The president’s pick for an appeals-court seat faced scrutiny from Democrats over NYC Mayor Eric Adams, a whistleblower complaint and his prosecutorial record