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Ex-judge says push to dismiss Flynn case is abuse of power
The Associated Press ^ | June 10, 2020 | By MICHAEL BALSAMO and COLLEEN LONG

Posted on 06/10/2020 12:54:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON -- A former federal judge appointed to review the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn said there was evidence of a “gross abuse” of prosecutorial power and that the request should be denied.

Former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson said in a filing Wednesday that the government “has engaged in highly irregular conduct to benefit a political ally of the President.” He urged the judge handling the case to deny the motion and argued that Flynn had committed perjury.

Gleeson slammed the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case, saying the arguments from prosecutors were “riddled” with legal errors.

“The Government’s ostensible grounds for seeking dismissal are conclusively disproven by its own briefs filed earlier in this very proceeding,” Gleeson wrote. “They contradict and ignore this Court’s prior orders, which constitute law of the case. They are riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact. And they depart from positions that the Government has taken in other cases.”

Sullivan also asked Gleeson to explore whether he should hold Flynn in “criminal contempt for perjury.”

In the filing, Gleeson said it was clear that Flynn had committed perjury and should be punished but that it should be a factor considered at his sentencing, as opposed to additional charges being brought against him.

“This approach - rather than a separate prosecution for perjury or contempt - aligns with the Court’s intent to treat this case, and this Defendant, in the same way it would any other,” Gleeson wrote.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: crossfirehurricane; election2020; fisa; flynn; flynnissafe; kabukitheater; patriotsincontrol; trusttheplan
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1 posted on 06/10/2020 12:54:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A judge who thinks he is a prosecutor now.


2 posted on 06/10/2020 12:55:25 PM PDT by 2banana (Common ground with islamic terrorists-they want to die for allah and we want to arrange the meeting)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

WTF cares what traitor Gleeson has to say!!


3 posted on 06/10/2020 12:56:39 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This guy is a member of the legal antifa.


4 posted on 06/10/2020 12:56:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: 2banana

said there was evidence of a “gross abuse” of prosecutorial power


we agree, that is why it is being dismissed...........


5 posted on 06/10/2020 12:56:49 PM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Pop Quiz!

By which ex-President was former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson appointed during his time on the federal bench?

Hint for those who may be playing along at home:

It rhymes with Pill Flynnton


6 posted on 06/10/2020 12:56:54 PM PDT by mn-bush-man
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Gleeson is a Bill Clinton appointee. But, Roberts has told us that there are “no Clinton judges, no Bush judges, no 0bama judges. Does anyone with any sense really believe that?


7 posted on 06/10/2020 12:57:03 PM PDT by euram
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Let’s see if we can sell the sheep a completely inverted view of reality.


8 posted on 06/10/2020 12:57:04 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Ex judge has lost his mind.


9 posted on 06/10/2020 12:57:28 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Withholding exculpatory evidence IS prosecutorial misconduct, and ought to be punished by lifetime disbarment and imprisonment. Who the hell do these people think they’re fooling?


10 posted on 06/10/2020 12:57:29 PM PDT by _longranger81 (Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves; defend the defenseless; care for the unloved.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

” A former federal judge appointed to review the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss criminal charges”

Appointed by whom, under what authority, to do what?

Oh that’s right it’s all just Horseshiite from an Obambi Stooge/Judge.

Ok got it now.


11 posted on 06/10/2020 12:57:32 PM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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12 posted on 06/10/2020 12:57:43 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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Gleeson was never qualified to be a judge. He’s partisan and dishonest. This filing proves that conclusively.


13 posted on 06/10/2020 12:57:49 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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To: euram

I still think Roberts is being blackmailed by the Clinton cabal.


14 posted on 06/10/2020 12:57:54 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX ("There is no such thing as a free lunch." ~ Milton Friedman)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, do people think this case will be officially closed by July 4th? I’ve previously indicated that it won’t be closed until after July 4th. Many said it would be closed before June, but here we are at June 10th.


15 posted on 06/10/2020 12:59:34 PM PDT by CatOwner
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Because of this increasing abuse, how many more millions can now be collected by the General?


16 posted on 06/10/2020 12:59:48 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Steely Tom

That one was sold to the sheep under the guise of the virus that was going to wipe out the population of the World 30 times over in the next three seconds. They swallowed that one hook, line. and sinker.


17 posted on 06/10/2020 1:01:38 PM PDT by sport
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hiring someone, ESPECIALLY a judge, to review a case and author a brief AFTER he’s already published an op-ed with the conclusion you want is so - lame.


18 posted on 06/10/2020 1:01:50 PM PDT by Jim Noble (Think like youÂ’re right, listen like youÂ’re wrong)
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To: Macoozie

I agree; another damned misleading, lying headline. This “judge” was “appointed to review” - just who appointed him? Well, Judge Sullivan, who picked him to help him keep prosecuting the case by making his position to the three member Appellate Court. Gleeson is not, as the headline indicates, an impartial third party judiciously reviewing the merits of the case and being troubled by the DOJ position on it - he is a partisan advocate, picked by a stalling judge who has no legitimate legal case but who wants to push the Flynn case past the date of the presidential election in the hope that they can replace Trump with someone senile. Another damned set of lies from the thieves calling themselves “the press”.


19 posted on 06/10/2020 1:04:18 PM PDT by laconic
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To: 2banana

I have a question that I haven’t seen addressed: If Sullivan is such a high powered judge, why does he have to bring in outside lawyers to argue the case for him? If I were on the appeals court panel, I would demand that he present his own arguments. If he can’t explain his case himself, I would rule against him without deliberation.


20 posted on 06/10/2020 1:04:35 PM PDT by TheConservativeBanker ($;)
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