The Senate confirmed Emil Bove 50-49 for a lifetime appointment as a federal appeals court judge as Republicans dismissed whistleblower complaints about his conduct.

The Senate approved Emil Bove as a federal judge in the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. The vote will place Bove — who has been accused of intentionally misleading federal courts on behalf of the Trump administration and lying to Congress — in a lifetime appointment to one of the most powerful positions within the judiciary.