Enter Emil Bove, the perfect Trumpian judge. Like a canary in the coalmine, if he survives Senate scrutiny, it will send a powerful signal to the president that it is safe to nominate others like him to the bench. That way, the president can turn the rule of law into the rule of loyalists.

Emil Bove declined to rule out the possibility of a third Trump term and did not denounce the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol in a questionnaire submitted to a Senate panel.