Cory Booker FUMES, Democrats Walk Out of Hearing to Advance Trump Judge Pick Emil Bove

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) was left seething as fellow Democrats stormed out of a Senate hearing following the vote on Emil Bove, whom President Donald Trump has nominated to serve on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

The shocking moment came after Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to advance the controversial nomination of Bove, Trump’s former defense lawyer, much to the chagrin of Democrats on the committee.

Booker, in particular, accused Republicans of rushing the vote and ignoring rules of the panel.

“Sir, with all appeals to your decency, with all appeals to your integrity, with all appeals to pass jurisdiction and pass precedent,” said Booker, raising his voice as he addressed to committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA). “Why are you doing this? This is outrageous.”

“This is a kangaroo court — that’s what we have here, ladies and gentlemen,” chimed in Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI) as she too left the hearing.

As Grassley tried to keep the hearing going, Booker went on: “This is wrong. To violate your own rules, without going by the mandates of the parliamentarian. This is unbelievable. There’s a way to do this. If you want to force this through, if you want to ram this through, there’s a way to do it in accordance to the rules as spelled out by the parliamentarian. It is simple, it is clear. There’s a pathway to achieve what you’re trying to achieve, but sir, this lacks decency. It lacks decorum. It shows you do not want to simply hear from your colleagues.”

Later, Booker told NBC News: “This is the world’s most deliberative body, and we can’t even debate a controversial judge, a judge that has been accused by a whistleblower of lying to the United States Senate, to lying to this committee.”

But Bove, who would serve a lifetime appointment as a federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, has been a topic of controversy in recent months.

In a whistleblower complaint, a fired DOJ lawyer claimed that Bove — in a March 14 meeting — told DOJ staff that Trump would soon order mass deportation flights for migrants, and that the flights were to take off even if a court order blocked them from doing so.

“Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘fuck you’ and ignore any such order,” according to the whistleblower complaint made by fired DOJ lawyer Erez Reuveni.

Watch above via MSNBC.