Another Deep State middle finger. Delay, delay, delay. And it’s working.
Yes he does!!
Criminal judges. We do not live in a just society, that is certain.
JoMa
And S Powell once signed a book copy and praised Judge Sullivan. The judge included that in his filing. I thought his lawyer did a good job but that idiotic reference could make the appellate court view the judge as simply petty and angry.
Is he arguing that judges are also prosecutors? What jurisdiction would he level his charges from since the Federal Government has dropped the case? Is his courtroom a jurisdiction?
General Flynn Oughta just start talking.
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.
I hope that these jerks are being well paid to write nonsense briefs like this one. The Judge cannot usurp the powers of the Executive which is exactly what he is doing. He may only take action IAW Rule 48, if he must do so to protect the defendant against improper actions by the government. In this case, he is attempting to do the opposite and he cannot be allowed to proceed.
Does this clueless corrupt judge really intend to prosecute LTG Flynn for illegally representing the Government of Turkey, an offense for which he was never charged? The brief suggests that he will do this. Crazy.
Now we know why Madison in Federalist 47 called this sort of thing tyranny.
Sickening is what it it.
Actually...he kinda is.
Somebody should tell judgy Em that he was appointed arbiter, not Chancellor. You call balls and strikes, not pitch, catch, run and bat.
So the Judge is pounding away at the table.
“Judge Emmet G. Sullivan should not be required to act as a “mere rubber stamp” for the government’s”
That is NOT the legal point and Sullivan knows it.
The point is he is duty bound to consider without prejudice the merits of the DOJ’s request to have the charges dismissed, in as much as they amount to the prosecution serving notice it no longer thinks justice is served by anything else.
The request for dismissal is being termed “unusual”, however it is not legally in error simply because it does not occur often, and their are case precedents to back up the DOJ’s request.
Instead Sullivan is acting as if he is duty bound to deny the request for dismissal, as if it were legally wrong for DOJ to even request it, which is wrong.
As some here have postulated, maybe Sullivan is doing all these things just to delay, delaying Flynn’s ability to come out from under the case and speak openly and freely of many things he knows about the Deep State and why they were after him.
Did he explain why he’s being an a-hole?
Ummmmmm...if there is evidence that he was pressured into pleading guilty then what he should do is dismiss the case!
doc 188 doc 188
Michael Flynn Finally Seems to Be Getting the Justice He Deserves
But there are documents from Flynn’s former lawyers stating that “We have a lawyers’ unofficial understanding that they are unlikely to charge Junior in light of the Cooperation Agreement.”
They went on to say in other internal emails that “The government took pains not to give a promise to MTF regarding Michael Jr., so as to limit how much of a ‘benefit’ it would have to disclose as part of its Giglio disclosures to any defendant against whom MTF may one day testify.”
Snip...Particularly problematic for Flynn’s former lawyers was the Justice Department’s threat to prosecute Flynn and his son for FARA violations unless Flynn agreed to plead guilty to lying to federal agents.
Dis gon' git good.
This is all about giving Sullivan a way to show his handlers he did everything he could but the man just overruled him.
” should Judge Sullivan do “
Admit that the government does indeed pressure, extort and bully innocent people and go along with the prosecution request.
It’s a matter of settled law to do so.
A rubber stamp is an endorsement given sans examination by an authority with oversight.
YOU, dumbass, have no oversight authority. You try the case, that’s it.
Democrats ALWAYS get away with wiping their asses with the law. Clearly this judge can do as he damed well pleases.
I bet Joe Biden would appoint Sullivan to the SCOTUS first chance he gets.
Sullivan does not recognize the current Justice Department as legitimate.
He considers the Obama Justice Department still to be the legitimate Justice Department.