I don’t think Judge Sullivan is requiring the senior legal ethics counsel for the District of Columbia Bar to appear at a hearing for the purpose of lecturing Flynn’s former attorneys.
I believe Judge Sullivan is so pissed off the the DOJ prosecutors blatantly violated the constitutional rights of Senator Stevens, referred them to the D.C. Bar Ethics Committee, which did absolutely nothing to discipline them. I’m sure Sullivan thought they should have been disbarred.
Sullivan is requiring the Ethics Committee to show up so Sullivan can ask for any reasons Flynn’s former attorneys shouldn’t be disbarred. Sullivan doesn’t need the Senior Ethics Counsel for the D.C. Bar to lecture Flynn’s former attorneys; Sullivan could do that himself.
“Sullivan is requiring the Ethics Committee to show up so Sullivan can ask for any reasons Flynn’s former attorneys shouldn’t be disbarred.”
Excellent point.
There is far more to this case than is being reported.