Wilkins (Obama): Flynn is just exactly like a racist cop who killed a black victim, and the Trump administration wants to let him off because Trump is evil and so is Barr's DOJ. Will vote to deny writ.
Henderson (Bush Sr): Let's just get along and let Sullivan's kangaroo process unfold however he wants because he's a member of our club. Will vote to deny writ.
Rao (Trump): I have probing rational questions. Will vote to grant writ.
I expect it to go 2-1 against granting the writ. (Against Flynn.) Ultimately, Flynn will prevail, but this will go another year.
Which is the ENTIRE point.
I think you are correct
I believe you summed up the entire pathetic fiasco very well, it’s really sad.
Even untutored citizens comprehend that this Flynn business is a farce. Thus it is time to rethink not only the role of the police, but the role of the judiciary in a representative republic. The judicial system — from the Warren Court to the feckless Roberts — has failed the American public.
Wilkins is now a proven racist and wants to make law, based on his questioning, not rule on it. He should be impeached.
I listened to the whole thing. I love Sidney but she was a little bit flustered. DOJ guy was good, sharp. Sullivan hack was typical hack - even tried, like Wilkins and Henderson - do the soft sell - let it proceed - Sullivan may just dismiss. To me that’s a con job just so Gleason can spew his garbage into the public square.
I puked in disgust when Wilkins did a direct, inflammatory insert of White Officer/Black victim DOJ not forthright crap. Talk about speaking to the listening audience. Disgusting. But he’s an Obama extension, so not surprising.
As RatRipper suggests, after all the fine legal arguments, there are just too many violations of fundamental principles at stake for Henderson.
If the writ is denied, the violation of those principles will be reviewed by this court's elders. The issue for Henderson will be whether he can craft a plausible legal argument that protects Sullivans yet honors those principles; an easy question for most of us.
Henderson (Bush Sr): Let’s just get along and let Sullivan’s kangaroo process unfold however he wants because he’s a member of our club. Will vote to deny writ.
This was all theater today. No doubt they had already hashed out this deal. Henderson joins Team Coup and they punt. The recent spate of Bush associates attacking Trump almost certainly was designed to nudge Henderson in the direction of Team Coup.