“The SCOTUS decision dismissed the idea of amicus briefs and said that a Judge should only consider what is within the courtroom?”
“All the legal wrangling now appears to be splitting hairs on the decapitated head of the case.”
The legal issues in the Flynn case are quite technical. 99.99% of lawyers have never dealt with these issues and are incapable of discussing them intelligently. They are spit-balling. They are like dermatologists advising you on brain surgery.
Included among those incompetent lawyers is Powell. She has no idea what she is doing, other than making a name for herself. And I have to admit, she has done a great job of that, completely winning with a political argument despite her legal incompetence. But she is winning in that respect because she is manipulating MAGA people with the political argument.
I despise what Powell has done to Trump supporters, MAGA patriots, and to Flynn himself.
You praise her overall strategy, but can you articulate it in a legal context? Her “strategy” has put Flynn in a very horrible position.
Barr tried to get Powell off the hook before she mishandled the case any further, but even that is up in the air.
Ask yourself this question: when Flynn was promised probation on a minor offense where everyone was sympathetic to him and believed he had been framed (which was true when he was charged) what did Powell say to Flynn about legal strategy? How was he going to be better off?
And we now know, she did not have the faintest idea where it would all go, because her strategy was legal baloney on the day she took up the case.
I don’t pretend to know the ins and outs of the legal arguments in this highly unorthodox case, but I do not dismiss what you are saying out of hand either.
Powell is and was looking for her next book and I said that a few times and got slammed for it here.
However, the proof is in the pudding as they say and right, wrong, fair, or indifferent, the DOJ asked to dismiss the case. Given that the DOJ very rarely releases information that might be embarrassing to them in any way I am not sure how much we would know now if Powell had not made a stink.
We knew it would be weird when she went on television repeatedly and talked about the judge. You don’t have to be a lawyer to recognize how unorthodox that might be and likely not the best course of action.
We will see in the end how it washes out. I want justice for Flynn who was clearly targeted by a partisan bunch of hacks for political reasons and I want the story behind what happened and who the bad actors were.
Surely we can agree on that.