The Senate confirmed Emil Bove, President Trump's former defense attorney, to the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, launching President Trump's former personal lawyer into a lifetime appointment on the bench amid a series of whistleblower complaints about his conduct.

Despite Bove being the subject of three separate complaints in recent weeks, two alleging he suggested violating court orders and a third alleging he reportedly misled Congress about the dropping of bribery charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the Senate on Tuesday approved his nomination to serve on a U.S. appeals court, confirming the controversial nominee for a lifetime appointment to the federal bench.

The upper chamber voted 50-49 in favor of Bove's nomination to the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which oversees cases from Delaware, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined all Democrats in voting no. "He has a strong legal background and has served his country honorably. I believe he will be a diligent, capable, and fair jurist," Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said of Bove on the Senate floor before the vote. Bove became Trump's most controversial judicial nomination to date, with former judges, prosecutors, and other Justice Department employees urging senators to reject his nomination. Bove was one of the lawyers who represented the president in his cases. criminal justice system and joined the Justice Department as principal deputy attorney general when Trump returned to the White House for a second term. Bove also briefly served as acting deputy attorney general in the early weeks of Trump's second administration until the Senate confirmed Todd Blanche, also a former defense attorney for the president, to the second position.