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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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1 posted on 12/04/2020 8:54:00 AM PST by MNDude
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None of the judge’s business.


2 posted on 12/04/2020 8:54:47 AM PST by madison10
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To: MNDude

bttt


3 posted on 12/04/2020 8:55:00 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: madison10

None of the judge’s business.

*************

Everything is their business. Just ask them.


4 posted on 12/04/2020 8:55:41 AM PST by Starboard
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To: MNDude

yeah, let’s see Sullivan do it to show just how much he is after Flynn

Trump has time to do another pardon.


5 posted on 12/04/2020 8:55:47 AM PST by RummyChick (I blame Kushner.)
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To: MNDude

A pardon is a PARDON!! SORRY Judge....


6 posted on 12/04/2020 8:56:03 AM PST by pollywog (" O thou who changest not....ABIDE with me")
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To: MNDude

Politically appointed judges have no Constitutional part in how the executive branch pardons anyone. If they don’t understand that then remove them.


7 posted on 12/04/2020 8:57:08 AM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: MNDude

This is why the founders did not want foreigners appointing judges...........


8 posted on 12/04/2020 8:59:51 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: MNDude

I think the judges now understand that our side plans to hand the Georgia elections to the Democrats and thus the courts will soon be packed.

...so, why should they keep acting like judges now that they’ll have the power to rule over us without recourse?


9 posted on 12/04/2020 9:00:03 AM PST by BobL (I'm Boycotting the Georgia Elections to 'Teach the GOP a Lesson' (by destroying the country))
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To: MNDude

WTFF!?! the president’s article II pardoning power is unqualified for federal offenses.


10 posted on 12/04/2020 9:00:13 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: MNDude
Judge-walton-pic.jpg
Reggie Walton In office: May 19, 2007 – May 19, 2014 - Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court - Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court In office: February 22, 2013 – May 19, 2014

Appointed by John Roberts

11 posted on 12/04/2020 9:00:23 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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Another Bush bonehead.


       

12 posted on 12/04/2020 9:00:56 AM PST by Songcraft
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Rope, tree....that time is upon us.


13 posted on 12/04/2020 9:01:35 AM PST by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them.)
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To: MNDude

Though I’m applying logic and not law, it seems to me that the question is irrelevant, applying only to past actions. It will only becomes an issue if General Flynn is accused of committing a new crime that occurred after the pardon, and he claims that the pardon excuses it.


14 posted on 12/04/2020 9:01:42 AM PST by norwaypinesavage (Calm down and enjoy the ride, great things are happening for our country)
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To: MNDude

Well, wait. If you read the story, the comment was an aside. He wondered if someone else might think it too broad.


15 posted on 12/04/2020 9:02:24 AM PST by JohnBrowdie
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To: Magnum44

We need a lot of those. Gov AZ. Gov SS GA


16 posted on 12/04/2020 9:03:57 AM PST by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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Sullivan will declare the pardon unconstitutional and invalid...............


17 posted on 12/04/2020 9:04:08 AM PST by Red Badger ( “The goal of socialism is communism.”... Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Songcraft

"Senior Judge Reggie B. Walton"

18 posted on 12/04/2020 9:04:28 AM PST by Songcraft
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To: MNDude

Tough crap, Judge. Get over it. It’s done, and there ain’t a damn thing your whiny ass can do about it.

As other Freepers have said, MYOFB.


19 posted on 12/04/2020 9:04:37 AM PST by AFB-XYZ (Option 1 -- stand up. Option 2 -- bend over.)
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If any judge seeks to contest the pardon, Trump needs to arrest them immediately for abuse of authority and extortion.

This is simply unbelievable.

20 posted on 12/04/2020 9:05:19 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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