Judge Sullivan says he is not required to 'rubber stamp' DOJ's bid to dismiss Flynn case

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Source: The Washington Post

U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan should not be required to act as a “mere rubber stamp” for the government’s unusual move to undo the guilty plea of President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn, the judge’s lawyers told a federal appeals court in Washington on Monday.

Sullivan’s attorneys asked the appeals court to stay on the sidelines to give the judge an opportunity to ensure the “integrity of the judicial process” and to rule on the Justice Department’s request to dismiss Flynn’s case.

The judge must evaluate Flynn’s dramatically different claims, Sullivan’s lawyer Beth Wilkinson told the court: “What, if anything, should Judge Sullivan do about Mr. Flynn’s sworn statements to the court, where he repeatedly admitted to the crime and to the voluntariness of his guilty plea, only to now claim that he never lied to the government and was pressured and misled into pleading guilty?”

The filing from Sullivan, defending his investigation into the Justice Department’s reversal, is the latest development in the extraordinary case. It comes after Flynn’s lawyers asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to immediately order Sullivan to get rid of the matter and accused him of bias.

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[MsLeopard]

1. I'm the 25th rec

So I feel like I have to say something..... I hope Judge Sullivan shoves Flynn’s rich white male privilege right in his smirking Republican face.

Our country has become a banana republic right in front of our eyes due to a concerted, well thought-out plan devised by right wing extremist billionaires, with a huge assist by the Supreme Court (unfortunately bought and paid for by those same billionaires).

My greatest hope is that the First Turning is right around the corner and we will come out of this misery better off.

https://www.fourthturning.com/

[burrowowl]

2. A brave and righteous man!

[zak247]

3. Courts

The way Trump has stacked the courts Flynn probably will win.

This is a prime example of the vital importance of getting Trump out of office.

If not were done as a society

[Dios Mio]

4. At the pace McTurtle is appointing judges

the stench of this presidency will linger for decades. This really worries me. It will be much harder to rebuild democracy with these young fuckers around. Like a bathroom with no windows.