Posted on 06/01/2020 2:47:35 PM PDT by Libloather
Judge Emmet G. Sullivan should not be required to act as a “mere rubber stamp” for the government’s unusual move to undo the guilty plea of President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the judge’s lawyers told a federal appeals court in Washington on Monday.
Sullivan’s attorneys asked the appeals court to stay on the sidelines to give the judge an opportunity to ensure the “integrity of the judicial process” and to rule on the Justice Department’s request to dismiss Flynn’s case.
The judge must evaluate Flynn’s dramatically different claims, Sullivan’s lawyer Beth Wilkinson told the court: “What, if anything, should Judge Sullivan do about Mr. Flynn’s sworn statements to the court, where he repeatedly admitted to the crime and to the voluntariness of his guilty plea, only to now claim that he never lied to the government and was pressured and misled into pleading guilty?”
The filing from Sullivan, defending his investigation into the Justice Department’s reversal, is the latest development in the extraordinary case. It comes after Flynn’s lawyers asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to immediately order Sullivan to get rid of the matter and accused him of bias.
The Justice Department joined Flynn in a separate filing Monday urging the appeals court to quickly bring the case to a close. The executive branch, not the judiciary, has the “power to decide when - and when not - to prosecute potential crimes” and Sullivan cannot independently initiate criminal charges.
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I read the brief, it wasn’t impressive. Lot’s of gobbly gook, but it fails to make an argument that a Judge may usurp a power reserved to the Executive Branch. Of course, he can’t, so those high priced lawyers didn’t advance the case in favor of Judge Sullivan.
Interesting that in his court experience no defendant ever changed a plea
This _judge_ is just one example of why DC is no longer part of USA; it is a lawless, conquered territory.
Can Sullivan be disbarred?
I’m curious, who is the judge expecting to represent the prosecution in the case?
The judge is compromised and needs to be removed from the bench. There is a process for this, paging Senator McConnell....
Briefs by the Counsel to Judge Sullivan and the Solicitor of General of the United States have been posted. IMO, the Solicitor General has drawn blood. The Sullivan crowd, not so much.
He would have made a great Nazi Judge.
judge you can get to that right after you deal with all the FBI & DOJ personnel who lied to Flynn, Trump, the American People, Congress and oh yea YOU!
I smell a coup accomplice here. Where is the DOJ? They should be giving him a proctology exam with cactus gloves.
Howard University Law School = nuff said.
In other words, now that the DOJ isn’t in the hands of Obama’s criminal fraternity, I don’t have to follow the law.
Can Sullivan be disbarred?
Federal judges can be impeached and removed from the bench.
Judge Sullivan is not a special prosecuter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiZdY9rw-uo
It’s over, Judge. IT’S OVER
No, Joe has said he wants to pick a black woman for the Supreme Court. So maybe Stacey Abrams or her sister, or Kamala Harris, or Anita Hill. Or maybe he will pick Barbara Jordan and be surprised to discover that she is ineligible on account of having died.
Yes you are idiot. The Supreme Court made that quite clear already.
Good analogy
Uh yes he is required to dismiss as the DC circuit court will shortly remind him.
He is judge, not prosecution. Case should be vacated by higher court immediately.
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