Posted on 07/09/2020 2:51:14 PM PDT by EyesOfTX
It’s not an option for the judge....but any one of the initial judges can call for it.
So the dissenting judge on the panel did NOT ask for en banc review.
What is amazing to myself is the depth of which these bastards will go to cover up their crimes. Or in this case, the uncovering of their crimes.
And they will all go down to the gallows as one and hang together.
Does Sullivan think he can drag this out 4 months???
Wonder if Flynn can sue the court for malicious prosecution?
This judge can afford his own attorney
Sullivan will never be impeached as long as traitors fill the House of Representatives.
L8tr
I’m surprised the judge did it himself. I’d think the prosecutor he appointed would more likely do it. I guess even he saw the futility of that.
Wilks didnt request. Sullivan requested through his atty. Wilkerson and another attorney at her firm signed the petition.Sullivan didnt do it himself. Taxpayers pay.
The black robes learn to be gods in their three years of law school.
He’s the one that would do it....and we haven’t seen that yet....that I know of.
This Court has 4 Obama appointees, 3 Clinton appointees, 1 by GW Bush and 3 by Trump.
They’ll take the case.
It is hard to overstate how wildly inappropriate this is. Under the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, a trial court judge is not even allowed to respond to a petition for mandamus unless invited to do so by the court of appeals. Why on earth does he think he is allowed to request en banc review?
“””Under the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure,””””
Rules are stupid and aren’t used anymore.
I agree. It is a circus and it definitely is not Flynn’s fault.
Maybe I wasn’t clear enough. Sullivan filed the papers thru his attorney. I was musing that he appointed this former judge, John Gleason, to challenge the Flynn motions and Gleason apparently did not have the balls to file a petition for hearing en banc himself. So that meant Sullivan had to do it if he wanted a review by the entire court.
Just read on politico Sullivan was being creative. Only Wilks or another judge on D.C. circuit can request. If not accepted, dismissal effective July 15.
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