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turbinetree

(24,685 posts)
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:19 PM Jun 2020

READ: DOJ Hits Back In Flynn Case At Accusations Of Its Own Corruption




By Josh Kovensky
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June 17, 2020 12:25 p.m.

The Justice Department responded to a blistering critique of its conduct in the Michael Flynn case on Wednesday, calling its decision to drop charges against the former national security adviser an “unreviewable exercise of prosecutorial discretion.”


Prosecutors submitted the filing to U.S. District Judge Emmett Sullivan in Washington, who appointed former U.S. District Judge John Gleeson to examine the Justice Department’s conduct in the case.

Sullivan appointed Gleeson to determine whether Flynn should be prosecuted for criminal contempt of court, and to argue against the Justice Department’s unprecedented motion to dismiss charges.

The DOJ held back in the filing from arguing that Gleeson’s appointment itself was unconstitutional, and instead argued that the Constitution forbids Sullivan from doing anything other than granting the motion to dismiss the charges.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/read-doj-hits-back-in-flynn-case-at-accusations-of-its-own-corruption

Well Barr from the POS Federalist Society alumni...............are you trying really hard to turn the country into Hungary...........like what that Orbin character is doing to the courts or better yet how about Poland and that government and what they are doing to the courts, which play book are you using..............

“unreviewable exercise of prosecutorial discretion.”


You should be in jail Barr sitting right next to that orange hair fascist along with Flynn and Manafort playing cards.............in the fucking jail cell


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READ: DOJ Hits Back In Flynn Case At Accusations Of Its Own Corruption (Original Post) turbinetree Jun 2020 OP
soooo, dismissing criminal cases as a political favor... Thomas Hurt Jun 2020 #1
In the Federalist Society world view turbinetree Jun 2020 #2
Nonsense Me. Jun 2020 #3
Barr rewrites the Constitution every time he wants procon Jun 2020 #4
Oh, it's getting reviewed soothsayer Jun 2020 #5
Wow. Bill Barr really takes the cake. crickets Jun 2020 #6
Hungry?? Maybe he means Hungary MiniMe Jun 2020 #7

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. soooo, dismissing criminal cases as a political favor...
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:23 PM
Jun 2020

and to cover up criminal acts a defendant has already fn admitted to....is not prosecutorial misconduct?

Me.

(35,454 posts)
3. Nonsense
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:46 PM
Jun 2020

It isn't up to the DOJ to make law

"the Constitution forbids Sullivan from doing anything other than granting the motion to dismiss the charges"

procon

(15,805 posts)
4. Barr rewrites the Constitution every time he wants
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:52 PM
Jun 2020

a different outcome. His only goal is to avoid any negative ruling or prosecution aimed at Trump and his scandal ridden hand of corrupt miscreants, idiots and incompetent bastards. Toward that end Barr will twist himself, and the Law, into pretzels.

Now a real judge, someone who actually knows the law and isn't the least intimidated by either the loud mouthed Trump or his slobbering, junkyard dog, has smacked down their attempt to write revisionist history.

crickets

(25,952 posts)
6. Wow. Bill Barr really takes the cake.
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 03:05 PM
Jun 2020

I so want to see him go to prison for what he has helped put this country through.

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