Thanks for the explanation. Hope you’re right.
The real reason the courts are playing with an esoteric point of procedure is to delay the inevitable.
Meanwhile, the press gets to set up the narrative that Barr is a toady - if he wasn’t, the DC Circuit would not entertain rejecting Barr’s intention to “go easy on Flynn.”
That narrative gets the law wrong, but it does get the swamp argument correct. Flynn is in fact guilty, and Barr is a toady.
What we are seeing is internecine battle within the government. It is no shock that the courts are part of the resistance. They will do all they can to stick it to Trump. And the press is guaranteed to go along with the narrative, no matter what the facts and law are. Everybody has shown they are willing to make up law, and make up facts.
Public gullibility enables this. The public is being duped, big league.