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He sees it will thank his career.
1 posted on 12/07/2017 6:05:22 PM PST by TigerClaws
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There are now public reports that Mueller and company hid exculpatory evidence from Flynn prior to the plea.

This obligates the Judge to report Mueller and company for possible bar violation or even illegal conduct.

So Judge is getting the heck out now.


2 posted on 12/07/2017 6:06:53 PM PST by TigerClaws
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I can’t see what reason he’d have to recuse from the sentencing that wouldn’t also require he recuse from the trial.


4 posted on 12/07/2017 6:12:37 PM PST by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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"Judge Emmet Sullivan, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, was randomly selected to take his place in the case. "

Uh... yeah, right.
5 posted on 12/07/2017 6:13:24 PM PST by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
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"...an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, was randomly selected..."

Uh-huh...

7 posted on 12/07/2017 6:14:23 PM PST by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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The Federal Bureau of Incrimination.

Making up the crimes Americans didn’t do.


8 posted on 12/07/2017 6:14:52 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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Is he a fisa court judge?


9 posted on 12/07/2017 6:15:30 PM PST by JoSixChip (Repeal and replace the gopE.)
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Methinks there is enough credible information on the table now to request a judge to dismiss all charges against Flynn and the others.


10 posted on 12/07/2017 6:16:07 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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Judge Emmet Sullivan, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, was randomly selected to take his place in the case.

Well, how about that? What a silly coincidence!

11 posted on 12/07/2017 6:16:49 PM PST by Billthedrill
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Any FReepers with actual professional experience with this kind of thing? Under what circumstances would this happen?


15 posted on 12/07/2017 6:19:10 PM PST by clintonh8r (I've been banned from TheHill.com. #Proud)
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Bet he realized how flawed this guilty plea was and doesn’t want to throw it out or be anywhere near it. Whoever takes this over should throw out the guilty plea.


20 posted on 12/07/2017 6:21:07 PM PST by Reno89519 (PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
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If Flynn does one day in jail there should be rioting in the streets. I am sick and tired of these shenanigans destroying good people’s lives while real criminals like the Clintons and Holder and Obama and Lynch walk free living the good life. At our expense!


30 posted on 12/07/2017 6:34:06 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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If Muellhead were an honorable man he would drop the charge. He knew the FBI agent he used in his investigation was a lapdog for HRC and anti-Trumper and yet he used him to question Flynn which set up the charge. Then he hid this information from the oversight committee and would not allow him to testify until he got his plea agreement in.


35 posted on 12/07/2017 6:35:47 PM PST by Lent
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The “Hearing” Judge May have heard things during the hearing that he now knows to be bull crap and falsehoods from Mueller’s people and/or NOT heard things that he NOW knows were withheld from him. The “Sentencing” Judge (because of his official ignorance) may be able to proclaim a sentence without being under the same judicial constraints that the COWARDLY “Hearing” Judge would be under.

Or maybe Sessions is his new hero and he wants to be a recuser just like Hero Jeff?

44 posted on 12/07/2017 6:47:11 PM PST by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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How convenient.
45 posted on 12/07/2017 6:48:40 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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This could be about the FISA application that Rep Jordan asked about today. If the public pressure gets loud enough for that to be made public, it could look bad for Mueller, and everyone involved so far, including the judge.

The speculation is that the application was based on the Fusion GPS dossier, that the FBI knew was unsubstantiated.

If the evidence gathered from the FISA recording is inadmissible, the case against Flynn falls apart. And if the OSC used that evidence, knowing it was tainted, that should spell big trouble for Mueller.

46 posted on 12/07/2017 6:48:51 PM PST by Repealthe17thAmendment
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Yeppers. A Clinton appointed judge will treat him fairly….not!


52 posted on 12/07/2017 6:55:44 PM PST by txrefugee
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Wanna bet he was the judge on the FISA court? He the Wray testimony today. Jim Jordon was pummeling and connecting the dots. All these people thought Hillary would win and no one will know. Its political Jenga, one block at a time... the slow reveal, then BOOM.


53 posted on 12/07/2017 6:57:30 PM PST by Walkingfeather
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It is very unusual for a Judge to recuse himself after presiding over a trial and then, at the very last moment, recuse himself during the sentencing phase.

More likely is that the Judge has serious conflicts or other serious problems that will come out in the investigation that is sure to result from the Flynn rail road job and should have recused himself from the gitgo.

The judge is probably trying to limit the damage to himself

54 posted on 12/07/2017 7:00:26 PM PST by rdcbn
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To: TigerClaws; LIConFem; Windflier; Billthedrill; txrefugee; Rastus; Flaming Conservative
I've actually been rather impressed with Judge Sullivan on occasion. He's smart & he certainly doesn't act like a 'Clinton stooge' - Flynn could have done MUCH worse than to get Judge Sullivan. I agree with Flaming Conservative - he's a good guy as evidenced by some of his rulings below:

Federal Judge Requests Clinton Email Records

Judicial Watch announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the U.S. State Department to request that Hillary Clinton and her top aides confirm, under penalty of perjury, that they have produced all government records in their possession, return any other government records immediately, and describe their use of Hillary Clinton’s email server to conduct government business. The court issued the ruling late today after holding a status hearing in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information lawsuit that sought records about Huma Abedin, the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The lawsuit reopened last month because of revelations about Hillary Clinton’s email records.

“This blockbuster ruling is the most significant legal development to date in the ongoing Clinton email scandal. Hillary Clinton will now have to answer, under penalty of perjury, to a federal court about the separate email server she and her aides used to avoid accountability to the American people,” stated Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton. “This court action shows that the rule of law and public’s right to know will no longer take a back seat to politics. Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration that is covering for her are not above the law.”

Judge Sullivan ruled on June 19 that the “changed circumstances” of the discovery that Hillary Clinton and members of her State Department staff used secret email accounts to conduct government business warranted “reopening” the lawsuit.

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Federal Judge Threatens To Hold IRS Commissioner, DOJ Lawyers in Contempt of Court over Lerner

Judicial Watch announced that U.S District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan today threatened to hold the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service and Justice Department attorneys in contempt of court after the IRS failed to produce status reports and newly recovered emails of Lois Lerner, former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the IRS, as he had ordered on July 1, 2015.

During the status hearing today, Sullivan warned that the failure to follow his order was serious and the IRS and Justice Department’s excuses for not following his July 1 order were “indefensible, ridiculous, and absurd.” He asked the IRS’ Justice Department lawyer Geoffrey Klimas, “Why didn’t the IRS comply” with his court order and “why shouldn’t the Court hold the Commissioner of the IRS in contempt.” Judge Sullivan referenced his contempt findings against Justice Department prosecutors in the prosecution of late Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) and reminded the Justice Department attorney he had the ability to detain him for contempt. Warning he would tolerate no further disregard of his orders, Judge Sullivan said, “I will haul into court the IRS Commissioner to hold him personally in contempt.”

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Judge Emmet G. Sullivan Slams Brakes on Another Prosecutorial Overreach

We have written before in praise of D.C. federal Judge Emmet G. Sullivan—the judge who named a special prosecutor to investigate the Department of Justice following its corrupted prosecution of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. Judge Sullivan also presides over the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by Judicial Watch. Thanks to his continued questioning—and refusal to accept the blanket denials of the Department of Justice—Judicial Watch continues to uncover the shenanigans of the IRS and Lois Lerner’s lynch squad, along with the IRS’s destruction of evidence that could link the White House to the political targeting of non-profit organizations.

Judge Sullivan has now struck another blow for fairness. He issued a bold decision reining in overreaching prosecutors and truncating their tactical abuse of a rule that allows them to have witnesses bring documents to a trial. The judge called a halt to the Department of Justice’s longstanding practice of “inviting” compliance with trial court subpoenas by the pre-trial delivery of documents directly to the prosecutor. Rule 17 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure requires that the documents be brought to court.

Why does this make a difference?

A Rule 17 subpoena is issued under the seal and authority of the court. Most everyone, in the face of a subpoena on behalf of the government, wants to be done with it as soon as possible. The opportunity to comply without taking the documents to court itself if far more than an invitation. It is a strong message that it is what the Department of Justice expects. Compliance informally outside of court is quicker and less hassle. Despite the fact the subpoena is issued through the clerk of the federal court, the defense doesn’t know it’s been issued immediately.

If the person receiving the subpoena immediately accepts the government’s “invitation” and takes the documents directly to the government,” the government adds yet another pre-trial missile to its already loaded silos. There could be evidence in those documents to which the defense is entitled because it is favorable to its case. At the same time, the defense doesn’t even know the documents have been given to the government. The government has a triple advantage: additional time, sole access, and complete control. The rule is not intended to the give the government additional pretrial discovery or an out-of-court advantage.

Judge Sullivan “gets it” and his opinion, issued on Friday, begins with a bang: “The government’s power when prosecuting a criminal case is not infinite. Nor does it extend to any power not specifically forbidden by law.” Comparing the government’s baseless arguments to the conduct of a “grade-schooler seeking to avoid detention,” Judge Sullivan held: “The government in this case has overstepped Rule 17.”

Judge Sullivan noted that the “government claims to have a longstanding practice of ‘inviting’ subpoenaed parties to make a pretrial production to it directly, but cannot articulate the legal basis for doing so.” The government claimed it was entitled to receive documents immediately under these subpoenas because “nothing in law prohibits” the government from doing so.

But Judge Sullivan read the Rule, and he is holding the government to it.

“Rule 17 does not authorize pretrial production without court approval. The government’s inability to provide legal support for its actions is telling: there is no support.” The judge recognized the “independent duty” of the court to review the propriety of subpoenas issued under its seal and subject to its sanctions. While the rule gives the court the ability to require production of documents “in court before trial,” it does not give that authority to the government.

The “subpoenas were just a fishing expedition” for additional evidence, and Judge Sullivan just cut the prosecutors’ line.

We are encouraged each time a member of our independent and equal third branch of government, empowered by Article III of our Constitution, protects the rights of the individual against the abuses of our government—as our Framers intended. It’s called the Rule of Law.

59 posted on 12/07/2017 7:16:48 PM PST by Qiviut (Obama's Legacy in two words: DONALD TRUMP)
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bump


73 posted on 12/07/2017 8:20:45 PM PST by timestax
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