Posted on 06/12/2020 9:18:26 AM PDT by jazusamo
A divided federal appeals court on Friday seemed reluctant to order the judge presiding over former national security adviser Michael Flynn’s prosecution to dismiss the case ahead of scheduled arguments in the trial court next month.
During a Friday hearing before a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, two judges expressed reservations about preventing U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan from ruling on the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) motion to dismiss Flynn’s criminal case.
Sullivan drew attention last month when he took the unusual step of appointing a retired federal judge to argue against dropping the charges and to explore the possibility of holding Flynn in contempt for perjury, with a hearing scheduled for July 16.
Flynn responded by asking the D.C. Circuit to order Sullivan to drop the case and block the court-appointed counsel from pressing for Flynn’s continued prosecution.
But at least two members of the three-judge panel on Friday appeared wary of removing Sullivan’s authority to consider additional perspectives and issue his own ruling — which could include granting DOJ’s request to drop the charges.
“We have Judge Sullivan, who is an old hand, he’s an excellent trial judge,” said Judge Karen Henderson, a George H.W. Bush appointee. “And he may say, to himself at least, you know, I asked for advice, and I'm ignoring it. And I'm granting the motion to dismiss. Shouldn't he be allowed to do that?”
Judge Robert Wilkins, an Obama appointee, also seemed reluctant to intervene in the pending trial court proceedings. The view of Judge Neomi Rao, a Trump appointee who posed probing questions to counsel on both sides, was more difficult to read.
– Developing
Late to the party here, but have to say judges generally do all they can to cover each other’s back sides, but they don’t always succeed.
We shall see.
I couldn’t agree more, my FRiend. I pray this appeals court ends this fiasco by Sullivan.
Full pardon is in order immediately!!!!!
NOPE!
SINCE LBJ!
LBJ and his War on Poverty destroyed the black family unit and tore them away from the Church - creating all the problems we have in the inner city with blacks. The blacks bought into this abomination and that was their downfall - they never fought against it.
RMB brought us the EPA OSHA and many others. He began the War on Natural Resource Harvesters, made Indians superior to all other in ‘rights’, and in many instances made them Special Masters able to take property at a whim - the list goes on - all of which took freedoms away from people degraded the quality of life and left many dead fighting against these terrible restrictions and confiscations.
After RMN, this country was no longer the America I grew up in, but some alien society or banana republic. Its been downhill ever since.
Judge,jury and executioner.That’s today’s typical Rat Party appointee.When it comes to Republican defendants that is.
Maybe we should riot in order to get “justice and fairness”?
And the Appeals Court knows that Flynn’s first lawyers, in Eric Holder’s Law firm, betrayed their client after bankrupting him.
Dreyfus Affair redux.
Since loooong back .. from jan 20, 1989 - new-world-order - bush
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