Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats walked out before Republicans voted on Thursday to advance President Donald Trump's nomination of Emil Bove -- the controversial top Justice Department official who formerly served as Trump's defense attorney -- to a seat on the powerful Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

Senate Republicans on the Judiciary Committee voted on Thursday in favor of former Fox News host Jeanine Pirro’s nomination to serve as permanent U.S. attorney in the District of Columbia. But they did so without any Democrats present on the committee,

More than 75 former federal and state judges on Tuesday called on the Senate Judiciary Committee to reject the nomination of Emil Bove, President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, to a prestigious appeals-court judgeship.

A group of former prosecutors are pushing to block the judicial nomination of Emil Bove, a former Trump attorney who they accused of being a "hatchet man," according to memos obtained by CBS News.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee moved ahead on Thursday with Jeanine Pirro’s nomination to permanently serve as the U.S. district attorney for the District of Columbia.

Trump nominee Emil Bove’s record of court defiance and loyalty raises serious concerns about his independence and a potential SCOTUS seat.

Emil Bove — whose nomination to a seat on the Third Cirucit the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Thursday morning — spent the past several months in a senior role at the DOJ tearing through barriers that were created to separate federal law enforcement from partisan politics.

Sen. Cory Booker has requested that Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove provide more details about his role in the DOJ’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking case.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee advanced the nomination of Emil Bove, Donald Trump's former personal lawyer, for a lifetime federal appeals court judge position amid Democratic protests. Republicans supported Bove,

NOMINATION CONSTERNATION — The most controversial judicial nomination of Donald Trump’s second term advanced one step closer to confirmation today. In a sign of Emil Bove’s lightning rod status, the Senate Judiciary Committee briefly devolved into chaos.