Ending the Flynn False-Statement Case Was the Right Judgment
Ending the Flynn False-Statement Case Was the Right Judgment
The Flynn case should never have been brought and was properly disposed of.
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Judicial Activism—May 9
May 8, 2020 ~~ By
DAN MCLAUGHLIN
Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn departs U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., December 1, 2017. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)The Flynn case should never have been brought and was properly disposed of.
Judgments and rules are two different things. Rules are, or should be, clear bright lines that can produce yes-or-no answers. Judgments are more complicated than that. They need not be as standardless as Potter Stewart’s famous definition of pornography (“I know it when I see it”), but judgments typically involve a good deal more weighing and balancing of multiple factors, sometimes in ways that don’t reduce to a mathematical formula. The Justice Department’s decision to drop the Michael Flynn false-statement prosecution, three years after he pleaded guilty, might not pass muster as a rules-based decision, which is why Flynn faced an uphill battle trying to convince a court to vacate his plea. But as a judgment, it was the right one.
Comment:
In the end the perjury trap set by the Obama administration and carried out by his henchmen in the FBI has boomeranged on the former administration and opened the Pandora's box of their corruption. It's sad that they had to go as far as blackmail and threaten Flynn's son to get him the falsely plead guilty. I wonder how many Progressives would do that to save their sons from false charges?
Hmm...., As far as the FARA is concerned, Flynn took the advice of his counsel at time, that was the law firm of Eric Holder.
One has to wonder whose interests Covington & Burling were representing when they urged Flynn to plead guilty to the spurious charges?
This isn’t how our justice system, or high politics, should work.
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