Sullivan must still be pissed off that the prosecutors in the Ted Stevens case were not disbarred as they should have been. Inviting the Senior Legal Ethics Counsel from the D.C. Bar Association is meant to make sure Flynn’s first attorneys and the prosecutors don’t escape punishment this time. This “invitation” is not an invitation that can be refused.
Sullivan has fend off the Flynn prosecutors numerous times in his court room and given Flynn every right to fire his first set of attorneys and in early July accepted the new Flynn attorneys request for delay, related to the huge number of documents to review from the beginning and because there are many more coming they have not received.
In order to better serve Flynn, this was a duty filled request by his new attorneys and a no-brainer for the judge to cover the request with his consent.
Sullivan, privately, gets plenty of applause from the White House.