Posted on 07/25/2020 6:36:40 PM PDT by JOHN ADAMS
The Michael Flynn case has opened a new front in the woke war on objectivity: Within the federal judiciary, we now have judges taking sides in the cases before them. Its a development directly at war with the political philosophy that animates our Constitution. It would, if left unchecked, destroy the neutrality of the federal courts. If that were to go, the judiciarys legitimacy and public respect for its dictates would be destroyed.
Now, [Judge] Sullivan has doubled down on his insistence that he need not be neutral: He has, as if he were a party to the case, filed a motion in the court of appeals asking that its decision be vacated and that the entire District of Columbia appellate bench rehears the matter. In so doing, he has dropped all pretense of neutrality and revealed his desire to steer the criminal case against Flynn, rather than presiding over it as a neutral figure who interprets and applies the law.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Federal judges can be impeached. Sullivan sounds like a man who should be given a choice, resign or be impeached.
“We need to revive the concept of jury nullification.”
That’s already the case in LaHood - where jail is looked at as slavery and the locals on the juries don’t even consider that the people they ‘emancipating’ are going back into THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS to rape and kill.
As to nullification on our side...that would be a start.
What you just described is exactly what the next election is about - the Democrats finally having the power to do whatever they want, and us never being able to remove them or even resist them again.
Sullivan may end up changing the definition of hanging judges.
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