[AnotherUnixGeek]

a federal judge with an established reputation of being a fiercely independent thinker.

"Fiercely independent thinker" is MSM talk for a dogmatic liberal who hasn't had an independent thought in decades. A truly independent thinker would be denounced as a racist, sexist, whateverist.

[rlmorel]

I know.

I want to puke every time I see that. He is no damned judge. He is an activist, and is fully in bed with the Left when he can avoid being roped in by the law.

The fact that he has let this go on in this fashion proves it to me.

Despicable.

[Fido969]

Sullivan went after the prosecution hard on the Ted Stevens case, so he was thought to be a good judge for Flynn. Then, suddenly, out of the blue, he did a 180 and called Flynn a traitor, and every other name. I thought “where did that come from”?

My guess is that just about that time they got to him somehow, either a Cayman Island bank account, a fat contract with a family member, or some heavy-duty blackmail.

Either way, if they could expose how they got to Sullivan - and Roberts for that matter - that would go a long way to cleaning up the Just Us system.

[PGR88]

Given that the prosecutor has dropped the case, the only reason a judge would want to keep this alive is to allow some time for further political grandstanding and media-headline manufacturing

[Luke21]

The Hill is so happy.

[arthurus]

Fiercely independent here seems to mean independent of the Constitution, civilized norms, law as written. He rules as he thinks best for Social Progress.