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WATCH<\/a>: Padilla also denounces Trump Administration\u2019s unserious proposal to reopen Alcatraz<\/em><\/p>\n \n WASHINGTON, D.C.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined CNN\u2019s \u201cThe Lead with Jake Tapper\u201d this evening to speak out against the nomination of Emil Bove \u2014 one of Trump\u2019s personal lawyers with an extensive track record of unethical and unprofessional conduct and political retaliation \u2014 to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, and to condemn the Trump Administration\u2019s continued refusal to release the Epstein files, despite the President\u2019s public promises to do so. After Attorney General Pam Bondi and Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Alcatraz earlier today, Padilla also criticized the Trump Administration\u2019s unrealistic and wasteful proposal to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison, highlighting the \u201cexorbitant\u201d costs to taxpayers of bringing the facility up to even minimum modern standards.<\/p>\n \n The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Bove\u2019s nomination this morning as Padilla and Committee Democrats boycotted the vote in protest of Republicans\u2019 blatant violation of Committee rules, which they used to jam through nominations, including Bove and \u201cJudge Jeanine\u201d Pirro to serve as United States Attorney for D.C., without public debate. At his nominations hearing, Padilla slammed Bove for his role in\u00a0firing dozens of Department of Justice (DOJ) prosecutors who worked on January 6 cases<\/a>\u00a0and his pledge to\u00a0disregard lawful court orders<\/a>\u00a0that check presidential power.<\/p>\n \n Key Excerpts:<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n \n On Emil Bove\u2019s nomination and Senate Judiciary Republicans ignoring Senate rules:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n \n On Bove\u2019s potential connection to the Epstein case and Trump Administration\u2019s refusal to release Epstein files:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n On the Trump Administration\u2019s unserious proposal to reopen Alcatraz as a federal prison:<\/strong><\/p>\n \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WATCH: Padilla also denounces Trump Administration\u2019s...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74189,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74188\/revisions\/74189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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