Amid all the Trump administration’s efforts to politicize the justice system, few loom larger right now than the nomination of top Justice Department official Emil Bove to a prestigious appeals-court judgeship.

Bove's candidacy was sent to the U.S. Senate for a confirmation vote despite significant opposition from former judges and prosecutors.

It is intolerable to us that anyone who disgraces the Justice Department would be promoted to one of the highest courts in the land,” they wrote to senators.