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Judge Questions Whether Trump’s Pardon of Michael Flynn Is 'Too Broad'
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Posted on 12/04/2020 8:54:00 AM PST by MNDude

A trial judge raised the possibility that another federal judge overseeing Michael Flynn’s case could find that President Donald Trump’s pardon of Flynn is too broad, if it unlawfully protects the former national security adviser from future prosecutions.

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said at a hearing Friday that he doesn’t think U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, his colleague presiding over the Flynn case, “has a lot of options in reference to what he does” after the pardon was granted, “unless he takes the position that the wording of the pardon is too broad, in that it provides protections beyond the date of the pardon.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: emmetsullivan; flynn; michaelflynn; news; reggiewalton; sullivan
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To: norwaypinesavage

I believe you’re 100% correct. Very well stated.


21 posted on 12/04/2020 9:06:19 AM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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To: Starboard

No, everything is stolen by them.

Stolen.

Not theirs.

Everything!


22 posted on 12/04/2020 9:07:20 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: MNDude
America will never be free until we can "disappear" renegade judges, à la Judge Joe Crater.

23 posted on 12/04/2020 9:07:58 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: MNDude

The out of control judge should already have been prosecuted for violation of civil rights.


24 posted on 12/04/2020 9:11:01 AM PST by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: MNDude

Tough titty. Trump unquestionaby has the power to do what he did with the Flynn pardon, and if a judge or anyone else for that matter thinks it was too broad, there is nothing he can do about it.


25 posted on 12/04/2020 9:13:44 AM PST by be-baw
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To: MNDude

Does he have some overdue VHS tapes at Blockbuster?


26 posted on 12/04/2020 9:16:59 AM PST by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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To: MNDude

The pardon power is plenary, absolute. This judge should know that and the supremes will make that clear. Flynn nor his lawyer should never appear for that case again. The pardon ended the case.


27 posted on 12/04/2020 9:18:23 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: MNDude

I TELL YA WHAT’S TOO BROAD, A JUDGE TURNING LOOSE A KILLER THAT KILLS AGAIN AND FACE TO CRIMINAL CHARGES FOR IT. CORRUPT JUDGES APLENTY


28 posted on 12/04/2020 9:20:04 AM PST by mikec256
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To: MNDude

Hey Judge, read the Constitution and then tell me what limitations are on the Presidential pardon power. There are almost NONE.


29 posted on 12/04/2020 9:22:44 AM PST by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - Dad's wisdom)
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To: MNDude

I haven’t read the pardon message, but it should state that it covers this current ordeal Gen. Flynn has endured and any future prosecution on the same set of facts.


30 posted on 12/04/2020 9:23:40 AM PST by elpadre
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To: MNDude

To bad...

It’s over.


31 posted on 12/04/2020 9:28:56 AM PST by DoughtyOne (I'm calling for terrorist and criminal reform. Defund them now.)
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To: madison10

Take it up with the Supreme Court.


32 posted on 12/04/2020 9:29:42 AM PST by silent majority rising
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To: MNDude

So this judge is questioning the constitutionally protected broad authority of a presidential pardon, but has no problem with a US District court judge issuing nationwide injunction based solely upon their opinion.

Got it...


33 posted on 12/04/2020 9:31:05 AM PST by shotgun
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To: Songcraft

Pegging the gaydar.


34 posted on 12/04/2020 9:32:28 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (If there be WAR in the offing, let it begin HERE. With ME.)
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To: MNDude

It’s all out war; even President Trump didn’t understand the extent of it. I think he does now, though.


35 posted on 12/04/2020 9:32:41 AM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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To: MNDude

“protects the former national security adviser from future prosecution”

Where has this idiot judge been for the past 5 years?


36 posted on 12/04/2020 9:34:40 AM PST by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: MNDude

Uh, I think Ford pardoned Nixon for “crimes” past and future re: Watergate.


37 posted on 12/04/2020 9:36:26 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: MNDude
TOO BROAD???? How about the phony ass indictment and entrapment scam that started in the White House with Obama, Biden, Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Susan Rice??????

I'll tell you where the indictments should be!!!

38 posted on 12/04/2020 9:45:19 AM PST by high info voter
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To: MNDude

Anyone have Sullivan’s home address? Time for a “mostly peaceful protest,” methinks.


39 posted on 12/04/2020 9:48:04 AM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (This is all a Soros funded communist insurrection! )
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To: madison10

Ask them judge about Jimmy Carter’s pardon of Clinton and all the other draft resisters and about Andrew Johnson’s blanket pardon after the Civil War.


40 posted on 12/04/2020 9:53:05 AM PST by JohnBovenmyer (a)
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