Blanche backs Bove judicial nomination in op-ed

Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche is zealously backing Emil Bove's nomination to a federal appeals court amid suggestions that his confirmation could undermine the rule of law, saying "nothing could be further from the truth."

In a Fox News op-ed published Thursday, Blanche called his former co-counsel on President Trump's Manhattan criminal case "the most capable and principled lawyer I have ever known." The remarks come as the Senate prepares to vote to advance the life-tenured judicial nomination.