Posted on 05/13/2020 2:50:15 AM PDT by knighthawk
It’s a sure sign of desperation whenever lawyers try to raise President Richard Milhous Nixon from the dead.
And so it is that a group of former Watergate special prosecutors this week resurrected the Ghost of Watergate Past in a last-ditch effort to keep alive the federal court case against former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
The gang, adopting the sobriquet “Watergate Prosecutors,” asked permission from U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan to allow them to intervene in the Flynn case so they can – to put it bluntly – tell his honor how to think and what to do.
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Sullivan is a DIRTY DEMOCRAT!! Check his BANK ACCOUNT!
When the Deep State looses, they sure don’t give up gracefully. They have to really make fools of themselves before the leave the field of battle.
Yes, but because of Trump they are having to operate out in
the sunlight after decades of scurrying when the lights came
on.
This is just a delay tactic to put off whatever Durham is going to do next. It’s clear to me that Durham is going to use this case to begin his next phase. Sullivan obviously got a call from his friends for some help. Flynn’s defense will push for quick dismissal and action by the court and they have the law and precedent on their side. The outcome cannot change but it’s the time to get there that will. I’m not a lawyer so I don’t know how long a judge can holdup justice.
... or maybe “the Game” was always to get Trump to use a presidential pardon with respect to the Flynn Case?
It was a set of instructions for the corrupt Judge Sullivan and the Deep State Lawfare vermin.
Instead of adjudicating the case presented by the parties, however, the court named three amici and invited them to brief and argue issues framed by the panel, including a question never raised by Sineneng-Smith: Whether the statute is overbroad under the First Amendment. ....
The Nation’s adversarial adjudication system follows the principle of party presentation. Greenlaw v. United States, 554 U. S. 237, 243. “In both civil and criminal cases, . . . we rely on the parties to frame the issues for decision and assign to courts the role of neutral arbiter of matters the parties present.” Id., at 243
As both parties have briefed that this is a travesty of justice, there was no crime, and this needs to be dismissed, there is no other issue other than that briefed and argued by the parties - dismiss.
Former prosecutors have no standing.
I think you’re right. For whatever reason I think Durham needs the Flynn case dropped in order to move forward. This case has been dragging on forever with delay after delay which appears to be some kind of game and Sullivan has been going along with it. I think a pardon of Flynn somehow screws up Durham’s plan. Flynn won’t go to jail however this shakes out. Just how much time can Sullivan buy?
I don’t care, this judge is a POS and confused about the law. Time to stop hurting the General in his court.
Trump you should tell this judge he has postponed sentencing Flynn, let prosecutorial misconduct go on and on
in your court without you giving any rights to Flynn.
Its time for Trump to step in with a pardon if the judge won’t sign the papers to drop this case.
Nobody he can call to damage the General has anything to add to the final decision
Justice delayed is Justice denied.
Maybe Sullivan should get to pay the legal fees for more
trial in his Kangaroo court.
Flynn’s 14th. Amendment rights being violated. They have no business in this case.
Clearly getting a little hot in the kitchen for Obama, Biden, Hillary & Brennan. Judge Sullivan clearly got a message and is trying any last-ditch way to slow down what is clearly the day of reckoning.
If this circus proceeds, does Flynn have a greater basis for appeal?
Let the judge make a flagrant judicial error.
The hot potato is now in the hands of Judge Sullivan. Can he take the heat?
Depends on the action on the case and motion for dismissal.
It’s one factor based on the ending. Judge Sullivan knows those details before he acts.
Send Marine police to stand in front of the judge’s house with displayed handcuffs and a paddy wagon with the service lights on.
But the law isn't as clear as many think.
The recent USSC case disallowed intervenors in a criminal TRIAL, where the contest is between prosecution and defense in front of a judge. What Ginsburg and the rest said was that no evidence, except what the prosecutors put on, was allowed to affect the verdict.
In THIS case, the prosecutors are finished, the trial is over, guilt is established by plea agreement, and the judge is about to pass sentence. In other criminal cases, intervenors (victim impact statements) are permitted to try to sway the judge, which is what Sullivan is trying to achieve here.
What he's done wrong is failing to rule on the motion before the court FIRST. He can't take what amount to victim impact statements from butthurt Deep State conspirators without FIRST ruling on the prosecution's motion to dismiss.
By allowing these swamp dwellers to come into his court and plead about Flynn's SENTENCE (which he would be allowed to do), he has to REJECT the motion to dismiss, in order to keep the case alive.
For the many good reasons already outlined, he really should GRANT the motion to dismiss, for which there is ample precedent - but it's not the same set of facts as in the recent USSC case, where even RBG could not swallow the leftist line.
Some how soros is involved
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