Judge asks if Michael Flynn dismissal is good for racist police

NY Post ^ | June 12, 2020 | Steven Nelson

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A federal appeals court judge repeatedly asked Friday whether dropping the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn would mean police can escape accountability for brutalizing black people.

DC Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins raised the possibility as Flynn’s attorneys and the Justice Department pleaded with a skeptical three-judge panel to order US District Judge Emmet Sullivan to dismiss Flynn’s case and his 2017 guilty plea for lying to the FBI.

Wilkins, an African American Harvard Law School graduate, asked whether dismissing Flynn’s case would mean that judges must also dismiss cases against police if prosecutors offer racist reasons.

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BHO apointee confirmed 55-43 by the Senate in 2014 after being blocked 2 months earlier.

[a fool in paradise]

Ass backwards, idiot

The prosecution has lied and is totally corrupt

[PGR88]

Right after university academics, it seems judges often score very high in the PC ideology stupidity Olympics.

[marktwain]

The judge has shown he is a racist, by framing a completely unrelated case into one about race.

[Nateman]

It just proves again that Obama appointed judges based on their contempt for the rule of law.

[a fool in paradise]

He screwed up bigly

He forgot to also blame Flynn for global wajng

#HowDareYou

[Vaduz]

It’s amazing how feeble minded people can get a job.

[LoveMyFreedom]

I pray for General Flynn. This is insane. What people do for power!

I am so frustrated and angry to see this is happening to him and watching what is occurring in our country.

[bert]

The question rises....... should there be a black judge who is biased by his very being?

[Gay State Conservative]

TERRORIST IN BLACK ROBES

[G Larry]

NO, you idiot!

It is completely irrelevant!

[G Larry]

NO, you idiot!

It is completely irrelevant!

[tennmountainman]

It’s about Race, not Justice for this Obama hack Judge.
It always is.

[oldbrowser]

I seem to recall black hoodlums with clubs intimidating people at a voting place. They had already pled guilty when Obama was elected but the charges were dropped.

[Rock N Jones]

“dropping the case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn would mean police can escape accountability for brutalizing black people.”

I simply cannot parse this at all. What brutality against a black or any other race did Flynn commit? Actually on well founded evidence Flynn is not accountable for anything that applies to this case.

There is some strange things in the legal field going on in these times.

[donozark]

A Black Stalinist.

[Carriage Hill]

What’s Gen Flynn’s case got to do with “police racism”?

[17th Miss Regt]

I know the protocol in court discourages answering a judge's question with a question, but that should have been responded to by something like, "Racist reason? Something like he was framed by law enforcement?"

[blueunicorn6]

Eh.....

Another Harvard Law School grad.

“You come to this law school with a skull full of mush. After three years and $360,000, you leave here with a skull full of oatmeal.”

[Impala64ssa]

The Flynn case could be used as a, to use one of 0bama’s smarmy phrases TEACHABLE MOMENT as to, ahem, SYSTEMIC abuses within law enforcement, racially motivated or not