The Constitution Requires Judge Emmet Sullivan’s Lawless Amicus Order Against Michael Flynn Be Overturned

The Federalist ^ | May 14, 2020 | Margot Cleveland

[Republican Wildcat]

Has this ruling even been appealed yet?

[Williams]

Yes Sullivan might have some discretion here, but the way he's going about it is absurd. The whole thing about a perjury charge for a false guilty plea smacks of coercion in an effort to stop Flynn from asserting his innocence. That would stop any defendant in the future from trying to change a plea, which is an allowed request. Bringing in third parties, in effect to prosecute. And the third party is obviously a surrogate for the judge's own angry feelings. Sullivan should have simply ruled. He can call the parties in, yell at them and make his decisions. He's obviously angry and acting way out of the judicial 📦.

[semimojo]

They were monitoring Flynn, not Kislyak.

They may have been monitoring Flynn but only a fool would think they weren't monitoring Kislyak.

[semimojo]

You’re discussing Russian sanctions. Maybe they should take an interest in YOU!!!!

You forgot the part about an agent of the Russian government.

You an ambassador?

[semimojo]

WOW... I must be on the wrong board.

Sorry. Didn't mean to interrupt the echo.

[eyeamok]

The Fokker decision was a 2016 decision from the D.C. Circuit Court and, as such, establishes “mandatory precedent,” i.e., precedent that must be followed, by all D.C. district court judges—including Judge Sullivan.

If we truly had an impartial Justice System, when Flynn Appeals this decision, the Appeals Court would hold Judge Sullivan in Contempt of Court and JAIL HIM for 30 days.

[P-Marlowe]

How do I know you aren’t an agent of the Russian government. Maybe you need to be unmasked.

Right now you are acting as an agent of the deep state.

Why are you posting on Free Republic, eh comrade?

[Missouri gal]

“legit and unremarkable”

Doesn't happen 30,000 times in a year, unless the unmaskers are crooks trying to keep their a$$e$ out of prison.

[P-Marlowe]

The point is that they knew Kyslyak was talking to Flynn because they were monitoring Flynn. HE WAS NOT UNMASKED! They were spying on Flynn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Doesn't happen 30,000 times in a year, unless the unmaskers are crooks trying to keep their a$$e$ out of prison.

Indeed.

[Missouri gal]

More likely he is a deep stater. He has trashed his own reputation here, broken the law, and subjected himself to a very serious ethics complaint. No way is this some kind of normal bias. My guess that the Obama deep state fears like everything that their crimes will be further exposed, especially if Flynn gets back into Trump admin, or even gets to advise from the sidelines.

[marktwain]

The unmasking was legit and unremarkable. It happens thousands of times each year.

I do not think that is correct. It has been reported to have ramped up to include the Trump campaign in large numbers, far beyond what might be considered ordinary.

The unmasking of political opponents is extremely unusual, and beyond the pale.

[marktwain]

Judge Sullivan is going senile. There is clearly something wrong with him. Its frightening the partisan evil going after Flynn, the left is really beginning to scare me.

What he is doing is perfectly logical, if you accept the assumption that he is doing it for partisan political advantage.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I agree -- Sullivan is being ridiculous. The "but he admitted he was a liar" argument, which the left is citing repeatedly for proof that Flynn was truly guilty, ignores the element of coercion. A coerced guilty plea is something the left has readily discounted when you have someone falsely convicted of other crimes to which they pled guilty. They don't claim "perjury" or " but "he admitted it" in those cases, so why isn't it valid in Flynn's?

Never mind -- I already know the answer.

[Williams]

Most folks don’t realize how arrogant and obnoxious many judges are. Also lazy and ill informed. He’s been in that position for like 35 years, no one can fire him. They are bound mostly by their own character or lack thereof.

Many of them are obnoxious to the point of insanity.

Not exaggerating. They harass, they misbehave, they are corrupt, the list goes on.

If someone surveilled THEIR phone calls there would be mass bribery and corruption charges resulting.

[semimojo]

I do not think that is correct. It has been reported to have ramped up to include the Trump campaign in large numbers, far beyond what might be considered ordinary.

NSA started releasing these numbers in 2015. In the 12 months ending August 2015 there were 9,217 unmasked. In CY17 there were 9,529 and in CY18 there were 16,721.

I think 2019 was around 10K.

Statistical Transparency Report Regarding the Use of National Security Authorities

The unmasking of political opponents is extremely unusual, and beyond the pale.

How do you know they're your political opponents until they're unmasked, and if you know who they are why bother asking for them to be unmasked?

[DesertRhino]

Bullsquirt. That is the conspirators story. They were innocently monitoring Kislyak when they happened upon Flynn. And they innocently needed to know who he was talking to.

It was not innocent. It was a targeted operation and Flynn was the target, not Kislyak.

[mom.mom]

Was Sullivan forced to commit this legal atrocity? I really doubt he came up with this himself.

[usurper]

What on earth is an OUTSIDE U. S. Attorney?

He was the attorney assigned by Barr to get to the bottom of all this. He was outside of the Flynn prosecution team and uncovered all the bad actors.

[marktwain]

As we have multiple high-ranking members of the Obama administration doing the unmasking, It would appear knowledge that it was Flynn, was very likely to be spread about in the upper echelons.

As for why, perhaps to show - "member of the club" status (I looked at it too, my status is as high as yours"), or to keep story lines straight, or at the urging of other top ranking members, to be at equal risk, multiple possibilities.