This was an immature move.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee stormed out of a vote for Trump’s judicial nominee Emily Bove.

The Democrats stormed out after Sen. Cory Booker urged Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley for more debate time.

Watch the moment it happened here:

Fox News covered the storm out more closely:

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Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee stormed out of an executive committee meeting Thursday moments before the panel voted to advance President Donald Trump’s judicial nominee, Emil Bove, to the full Senate floor for a vote.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., urged Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, before the vote to allow them to consider the allegations against Bove made by a former Justice Department attorney, Erez Reuveni, in a whistleblower report.

Booker invoked Rule 4 of the committee rules in trying to push for additional debate time, which Grassley declined to acknowledge before ordering the vote — prompting the Democrat members of the panel to abruptly exit the hearing room.

Shortly before walking out, Booker took aim at Grassley. “What are you afraid of?” he erupted, after Grassley tried to speak over him and hold the vote. “Debating this [nomination], putting things on the record — Dear God,” he said, “that’s what we are here for.”

“This lacks decency, this lacks decorum, it shows that you will not hear from your colleagues,” Booker said to Grassley in another attempt. “You are a decent man,” he said, imploring him to allow a small window of additional time for the panel to debate before pushing through with the committee vote.

“Why are you doing this?” Booker pressed again.

“What are they saying to you,” he said, referring to the Trump administration, “that is making you do something to violate the decorum, the decency and the respect of this committee to at least hear each other out?”

The nearly hour-long debate held prior to Bove’s confirmation vote was unsuccessful, and Trump’s nominee cleared the committee in a party-line vote.

Another angle:

USA Today reported why the Democrats are not happy with Bove:

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Bove was Trump’s criminal defense lawyer during his Manhattan criminal case for business fraud related to payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels. Trump appointed him to a senior position in the Justice Department before nominating him to sit on the Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia.

Shortly before the Senate Judiciary Committee considered Bove’s nomination June 25, a whistleblower, long-time Justice Department prosecutor Erez Reuveni, alleged that Bove advocated at a March 14 meeting for the department to ignore court orders if necessary to make sure deportation flights took off.

“Bove stated that DOJ would need to consider telling the courts ‘f— you’ and ignore any such court order,” according to Reuveni’s June 24 whistleblower disclosure.

Reuveni was fired in April, after he raised concerns to his chain of command “for nearly three weeks regarding the government’s compliance with court orders and candor to the courts,” according to the disclosure.

Before storming out, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, a Democrat from Rhode Island, said Reuveni had “abundantly corroborated” his allegations with text messages among attorneys discussing Bove’s alleged comments around the time they happened. “Prosecutors don’t get better corroboration than that,” Whitehouse said.

Another classless move by the Democrats.

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