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There's nothing to 'short circuit'. Sullivan is making it all up at this point.
1 posted on 06/01/2020 3:44:33 PM PDT by Libloather
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The question before this court is whether it should short-circuit this process

Well, if that is the question the answer is an emphatic "yes!"

2 posted on 06/01/2020 3:46:43 PM PDT by KevinB (Quite literally, whatever the Left touches it ruins.)
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The Justice Department’s conduct in abruptly deciding to end the case...

Abruptly?? Flynn has been in sentencing limbo for almost 2 years.


3 posted on 06/01/2020 3:49:20 PM PDT by Flick Lives (My work's illegal, but at least it's honest. - Capt. Malcolm Reynolds)
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If allowed to proceed Judge Sullivan will make US judicial history...he’ll be the first Federal judge to serve both as judge and prosecutor.


4 posted on 06/01/2020 3:49:30 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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Sullivan is making it all up at this point.

Ain't that the truth.

5 posted on 06/01/2020 3:49:44 PM PDT by timestax
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This partisan fool needs to be removed from the bench.


6 posted on 06/01/2020 3:49:44 PM PDT by Pelham ( Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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Sullivan is INSANE!! STOP THIS MADNESS!!!


8 posted on 06/01/2020 3:51:41 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Sullivan is INSANE!! STOP THIS MADNESS!!!


9 posted on 06/01/2020 3:51:46 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Maybe we should just ask the Democrat Party to decide every case and get rid of all the judges and lawyers.


10 posted on 06/01/2020 3:52:29 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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PHOOEY!!!!
11 posted on 06/01/2020 3:54:16 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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Short-circuit is the wrong term. With a short circuit, electrical current is present, but is being required in such a way that a fuse or break is tripped, or a piece of the device is damaged.

No we need you to unplug the thing so there is no current to short circuit.


12 posted on 06/01/2020 3:54:21 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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The Justice Department’s conduct in abruptly deciding to end the case against President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn was so unusual that it raised a “plausible question” about the legitimacy of the move...

For those wanting to attack Trump any way they can. Thanks, NYT, for providing us all with the liberal view...

13 posted on 06/01/2020 3:54:59 PM PDT by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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"Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia asked a three-judge panel not to cut short his review of the factual and legal issues surrounding the case."

If you actually cared about facts and legal issues, you'd be scouring the recently released DOJ and FBI documents that were withheld by prosecutors, and you'd realize that you were taken for a ride, that you knew you were being taken for a ride and allowed it, and that whatever judicial career and reputation you thought you had, you totally dismantled yourself with your political bias in the case. And you didn't even try to hide it.

18 posted on 06/01/2020 4:04:04 PM PDT by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne)
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Sullivan is making it all up at this point.

Not entirely. Rule 48(a) of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure says that, "The government may, with leave of court, dismiss an indictment, information, or complaint."

So Sullivan's permission is required to drop the charges. His grounds for refusing permission, if he does, may be reviewed on appeal, but the rule certainly gives him some kind of role.

19 posted on 06/01/2020 4:08:52 PM PDT by Lurking Libertarian (Non sub homine, sed sub Deo et lege)
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I hope the court holds Judge Sullivan in contempt of the court order he is under. Maybe some jail time would allow him to devote time to responding to their order on explaining what is going on.


23 posted on 06/01/2020 4:12:53 PM PDT by Robert357
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If General Flynn is completely exonerated, the entire Russia hoax falls apart. The left knows this. The media knows this. When Obama‘s phone call regarding the justice department dropping the case against General Flynn was “leaked“ to the media, I believe it was actually instructions from Obama to Judge Sullivan on what to do.


24 posted on 06/01/2020 4:14:27 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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“Short Circuit” is not a response based on law..
Where are the law’s and statutes the hack Judge
uses to support his response? There are none.
He uses his opinions. Opinions are not law.
He should be removed from the bench for this
circus he has created.


26 posted on 06/01/2020 4:16:47 PM PDT by tennmountainman (The Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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Contrary to Beth Wilkinson’s argument, this situation is the exact reason for the granting the petition for a writ of mandamus. There is no lawful reason to deny it.

When a judge ignores a ministerial duty and refuses to perform it, the Appellate has no option but to grant it. A ministerial duty is one in which the law requires a certain action for which there is zero room for discretion.


28 posted on 06/01/2020 4:21:48 PM PDT by WASCWatch (asse)
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Time to send in Durham to ask the good judge if he has been in contact with anyone outside of his hierarchy regarding the Flynn case. Perhaps to the judge will think twice before lying to a federal prosecutor.


29 posted on 06/01/2020 4:22:55 PM PDT by BOBWADE (WWG1WGA)
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Judge Sullivan asked for nothing. His attorneys spewed forth some garbage.


30 posted on 06/01/2020 4:28:05 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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“was so unusual that it raised a “plausible question” about the legitimacy of the move”
in other words,
Sullivan views the current Justice Department as illegitimate.
For him the Obama Justice Department remains the legitimate Justice Department.


31 posted on 06/01/2020 4:33:27 PM PDT by Montaignes Cat
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