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"I Didn't Sign Up To Lie." His Last Words As A Trump Regime Lawyer [1]
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Date: 2025-06-24
“I didn’t sign up to lie.” — Former Department of Justice Deputy Director for the Office of Immigration Litigation Erez Reuveni. He was promoted to that position, by the Trump Regime, in mid-March. He was summarily fired in mid-April.
While Mr. Reuveni’s name might not be familiar to you, at least part of his story might. He is the attorney attacked and fired by the Trump Regime after he acknowledged in court that the deportation of Abrego Garcia to the El Salvador gulag was due to “administrative error.” While the Regime presents that as something he invented, he was in fact just repeating in court what the DOJ had already separately filed as a sworn statement from an ICE official.
Reuveni has filed a whistleblower complaint, which you can read in full HERE.
In this complaint Reuveni alleges that on March 14th he attended a meeting with other senior DOJ attorneys to discuss Trump’s plan to, on that day, sign an Aliens Enemies Act order to allow deportation within hours of hundreds of people. In the meeting these attorneys anticipated the possibility the administration could be targeted with a restraining order to stop such flights.
One of the attorneys, Emil Bove, was adamant that the flights must continue even if a court issued a restraining order against it. Bove declared, to a stunned room, that they may just tell the courts “Fuck you.”
As we now know, exactly what Bove suggested they would do, they did do. A judge did issue a restraining order, and this regime effectively said exactly that to the court.
For the record, Emil Bove, tomorrow begins Congressional testimony in the Senate for his appointment by this Regime to the United States Court of Appeals. Expect for him to get some questions about this.
As the case involving Abrego Garcia played out a brief was repeatedly staffed that on appeal, would for the first time, argue that Garcia’s deportation was not a mistake after all but was justified because Garcia was an MS-13 “terrorist.” On each pass of the brief Reuveni commented by objecting to the language on grounds:
The argument had not been raised at trial court and was thus not preserved to be raised on appeal. [which was true] No evidence had been submitted into the record that supported the claim Garcia was in MS-13, never mind a leader of it. [last week a court agreed with exactly that] Even if Garcia were a member of MS-13 that would not legally justify defying an existing court order forbidding his removal. Rather, the DOJ would have to go back to that court seeking modification of the court order. [also true]
With the deadline to submit the brief approaching Reuveni refused to sign it. Over an hour after the deadline had passed, at 1:20 in the wee hours of the morning, he was ordered to sign it. Reuveni refused. The person issuing the order told Reuveni that he signed up for the responsibility of signing that brief when he accepted the job as Deputy Director.
And that is when Reuveni answered with, “I didn’t sign up to lie.” Within hours he was suspended, and within a week he was fired.
Of course the White House has already branded Reuveni a liar and “disgruntled” fired employee. However, Reuveni’s whistleblower complaint cites numerous emails and text messages that would back up his account.
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