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Ex-Watergate prosecutors say judge has legal duty to review facts in Flynn case
reuters ^ | May 27, 2020 | Sarah N. Lynch

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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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: flynn; sullivan; watergate
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To: TXnMA

This should work.
https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1266500197103828992


81 posted on 05/29/2020 6:29:27 PM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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To: TXnMA

This should work.
https://twitter.com/SidneyPowell1/status/1266500197103828992


82 posted on 05/29/2020 6:29:30 PM PDT by Rock N Jones (1935)
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