U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday pushed back on the former Department of Justice “whistleblower” who is accusing the Trump administration of defying courts, saying Erez Reuveni is nothing more than a “disgruntled employee” and a “leaker.”

Reuveni told The New York Times in a story published Thursday that the Trump administration was “thumbing its nose at the courts” over the due process rights of hundreds of illegal migrants, including Kilmar Abrego Garcia, whom Reuveni asserted to a federal judge was mistakenly deported to El Salvador earlier this year.

Reuveni’s claims center on Emil Bove, nominated by President Donald Trump in May to be a federal judge for the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. Reuveni claims that Bove, the Justice Department’s principal associate deputy attorney general, repeatedly suggested defying the courts in order to uphold Trump’s immigration policies.

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