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The following is a full transcript of the Oral Arguments held by the DC Circuit Appellate Court in reference to a Petition for a Writ of Mandamus by General Michael T. Flynn, supported by the Department of Justice, to stop the now innecesary proceedings in the District Court. A decision from the three-Judge panel will be forthcoming. The arguments were held by teleconference due to restrictions imposed by COVID-19 measures rendering an appearance in court impossible. This is NOT an official document, but the author's rendition of the recording of the teleconference:

Time to make SJC judges pay for indecent proposal By Howie Carr Recent Columns by Howie Carr Friday, February 6, 2004 The Legislature needs to OK not one but two amendments to the state constitution next week. The first one to outlaw this abomination of ``gay marriage.'' The second to mandate the election of judges, starting with the four members of the SJC who are so hellbent on sacrificing marriage on the altar of Political Correctness. Everyone should have a chance to vote, and the majority will rule. Is that OK with you, Arline and Barney and Cheryl and Jarrett?...

In his farewell address in 1796, George Washington cautioned his countrymen and their posterity about protecting the newly minted separation of powers established for the republic. He warned about nefarious actors who might refuse to confine themselves to their constitutional duties. Free-lancing, he advised, would lead "one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create ... a real despotism." Members of the Massachusetts legislature should consider his admonition before going through with their plan to try placate the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court with a...