Posted on 02/05/2021 12:54:38 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Judge Emmet Sullivan, whose 27-year tenure on the U.S. District Court in Washington helped shape prosecutors’ obligation to disclose evidence in criminal trials and was capped by politically explosive cases involving Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, will retire from full-time duty.
Sullivan notified President Joe Biden by letter Thursday that he will step back April 3, allowing Biden to fill a vacancy on the influential court that oversees the nation’s capital.
“I plan to be as active as always; my colleagues and the courthouse are my extended family and second home!” the judge said in a statement.
Sullivan, who guided generations of judges onto the District of Columbia Court of Appeals and District Superior Court, will take “senior status” and maintain a reduced case load as permitted for federal judges after age 65 based on their age and tenure. He joins a wave of departing veteran U.S. jurists, as partisan fighting over ideological control of the judiciary has expanded to lower-court appointments.
Sullivan, 73, was appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, a Democrat, and has presided over his share of scorched-earth partisan battles. He helped keep alive conservative-led open records lawsuits to probe 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of state. He more recently presided over the searing political free-for-all in the Justice Department’s abandoned prosecution of Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn.
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I hope he has a very short, and painful retirement.
This is Babylon Bee story, right?
At least we will be free of this corrupt POS. Biden, or Pres. Harris or Pres. Obama will name the next nominee to the DC Court, a cesspool of leftists (but Trump did get some good people on the DC Circuit Court/Appeals).
Sullivan: In Hell, they don’t need no stinkin’ judges. You were judged evil enough to go there, could not collect $200, a Get out of Hell free card, or redemption for your corrupt soul.
>> helped shape prosecutors’ obligation to disclose evidence
BS
Another pair of lying WAPO scum — Spencer S. Hsu and Ann E. Marimow
Smell the sulfer emmitt?
He’s sure to be holidaying with Eric the Red.
Any action taken by Biden will be shown to null and void.
Judge Emmett *sshole.
Keep dreaming.
Trump has all the evidence. When the time is right, the Constitution will be restored. Either that, or the US is doomed. There is no middle ground. There is no 2024 without corrective action now.
Mr. Sullivan, you will go down in history as an incompetent, dishonest judge who disgraced his profession and recent events prove that is hard to do.
He ran interference for obama to neutralize General Flynn and ran out the clock on the Trump presidency. He will have a prominent position in the obama shadow presidency.....make no mistake.
You are either sunshine pumping or really believe that. While I agree Trump has the evidence, I don’t agree there will be acceptance of the evidence to a large enough extent to sway the outcome. A century of propaganda culminating in a constant 24/7/365 gaslighting of conservatism and it’s ideals is going to end badly (as history proves time and again). I would love for you to be right, but I’m focusing on plan B.
“Of counsel’, one of these mysterious law firm terms, simply means a lawyer who is employed by a firm to do work but is not an associate or a partner. It’s essentially another way that lawyers get paid.
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I’m sure there is a long list of Deep State law firms willing to give Sullivan a “no show”....”do nothing” cushy job to augment his already “cushy” federal pension.
His work on the courts is done, and now he gets the big payola.
Notice all the people retiring, stepping Dow, jumping off rooftops, having heart attacks. I hear footsteps. Who wants to hang or face a firing squad?
Read up on Tump’s executive order of 9/17. Also read up on PEADs—Presidential Emergency Action Documents. The Brennan Center has an excellent review, Also, not that the RATS freaked out in April regarding Trump’s potential use of PEADS. They are secret and they got NO ACCESS. There is a wy out of this—and Trump and the people win.
He isn’t going anywhere.
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