Did Emil Bove violate judicial ethics code with appearance at Trump rally?

WASHINGTON (CN) — Third Circuit Judge Emil Bove may have violated the federal judiciary’s ethics code when he attended a politically-charged rally held this week by President Donald Trump, legal experts and lawmakers said Wednesday.

And experts said that the controversial jurist’s appearance at Trump’s event — in which the president addressed inflation and flung insults about immigrants from what he referred to as “shithole countries” — adds to a trend of nominally impartial federal judges who have increasingly embroiled themselves in partisan politics.

Bove, a former Justice Department official confirmed to the appellate bench over the summer, was spotted in the audience at Trump’s speech, held Tuesday evening at the Mount Airy Casino Resort in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania. The judge told reporters he was there “as a citizen coming to watch the president speak.”

But Bove’s appearance at the event, which took on the aura of a political rally, instantly raised questions about whether he had run afoul of ethics guidelines that bind federal judges.

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