Posted on 05/27/2020 11:47:00 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sixteen former Watergate prosecutors on Wednesday said U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan should be allowed to review all the facts before deciding whether to grant a Justice Department request to drop the criminal case against President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn.
In a filing with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the former prosecutors said they feared the Justice Department was not acting in the public interest, and that Sullivan has the power to scrutinize the request in order to ensure that “the waters of justice are not polluted.”
Flynn filed an emergency petition with the federal appeals court on May 21, asking the court to force Sullivan's hand and toss the case.
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He has been the Judge throughout this trial, he knows the facts better than anyone else, what on earth does he need an outside review for?
The judge certainly has an obligation to “review “ everything submitted to the court.
That doesn’t mean he can hire a Democrat to come in and argue against DOJ and against a defendant’s rights.
The judge’s extreme folly was trying to delay everything and put on a kangaroo court proceeding
PING
Remember:
Hitlery was part of that prosecution office. If memory serves me correct, she was fired because she lied about whether Nixon was allowed to have representation. Worse, she was fired by a dem who found her to be dishonest. Wow.
Strange! I would have thought the Judge had been given an order to drop all charges by the “Department of Justice”, his boss!
To the Deep State! It’s over!
Was the Fired Hillary one of them?
I would wager $100,000 NOT ONE of them voted for Trump. They ALL voted for Hillary.
No he does not. His obligation is to be a judge. Both parties have asked for dismissal. End of story
Excuse me, but this a-hole has had since December 2017 to review all the facts, and has obviously failed miserably. Why give him more time to do the job he was supposed to be doing all along? Gross malfeasance on the part of the prosecutors, and on the part of the sitting Judge. Get this farcical moron off the bench.
Actually, no, he does not. To assume that the government prosecutors have ulterior motives in dropping a case is NOT within the purview of the the judge’s powers. He is there to assure the rights of the accused are not trampled, not the that the people, i.e. the government, are represented fairly. That is the job of the prosecutor. The weight of the government already outweighs the what the defendant can bring to bear. The judge should be mindful of the rights defendant instead of the power of the government.
BS. No he does not. Whether to prosecute is at the sole discretion of the prosecutor. It is not the role of the Judiciary but of the Executive branch.
Sullivan actually came into this case after the Trial judge recused himself without explanation, after Flynn pled guilty. Sullivan is present only for the sentencing phase. He was not present for the preliminaries, and not for any of the motions, etc, that lead up to the plea bargain. No one knows why the original judge recused himself. He just announced one day in court that he was recusing and then Sullivan was in.
The Judge is not to there to serve public interest. He is their to serve the law. If the former was true dispensing with the whole jury system would be where to start and simply go to justice by polls.
“Just the fact that they were Watergate prosecutors makes me question their integrity.”
How about if they write a letter explaining why the spying on Trump doesn’t warrant prosecution.
How about we show just who-— regardless of, and espcecially because of his “race”-— this judge is.
A photo— which I do not have of Roland Friesler
the “Totalitarian State” judge in Germany who “overseeing the prosecution of notable political crimes as a judge”... no jury, no Grand Jury, but trials of people brought to him by the Gestapo (the model the nazis came up with). This is what this put up job judge has on his history.
The Appeals Court (DC) Tribunal has given him until June 1 to reply back to them-— they will be handing him his head with ANY reason he provides (including this idiotic amicus curiae of Hitlery pals from.... 40 years ago? against a demonstrable ABUSE of FISA warrants, and surveillance state that will expose all of them as criminals— in need of house cleaning).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Freisler
The law is clear on this point.
Which proves that these people are hacks.
Actually, no. His recital of the facts were completely wrong. He was citing Rachel Maddow’s talking points from the day before, talking points that also completely mischaracterized Flynn’s case. Maddow’s claimed that Flynn had been “representing Turkey while he was National Security Advisor” and was a Traitor. She waxed apoplectic about Flynn talking about Obama’s sanctions on Russia for its meddling in the 2016 presidential election. . . But Obama did not impose sanctions for the 2016 presidential election, he expelled specifics Russian diplomats. That’s all. The US Congress introduced Sanctions on Russian three weeks AFTER Flynn’s conversation with Kislyak, sanctions that Obama never mentioned. Flynn just suggested that the Russians not proceed with a tit-for-tat retaliation on the diplomat expulsions in advance of a new administration being inaugurated.
Judge Sullivan showed he knew NOTHING about the case when he called Flynn a traitor, but that he did watch Rachel Maddow.
“Just the fact that they were Watergate prosecutors makes me question their integrity.”
Well, they did fire Hillary at the time.... ;-)
The judge intends to be able to have CNN in court daily the two weeks prior to the election in November, talking about Flynn, Trump and “muh Russia”.....
Judge Sullivan would make Justice Roy Bean look like a bleeding heart liberal.
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