Thus Spake Sullivan!

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

What you don't address is why did 39 government officials request American 1 who was conspiring with the russian ambassador to undermine US national security request to know who the traitor was?

Except that didn't happen and is a lie.

We know it wasn't a single rogue individual who came to that conclusion, it was 39 different national security, counter intelligence, and law enforcement officials who came to the same conclusion.

Each requested to know who the traitor (aka American 1) was.

There was no f-ing traitor by their own admission. Where do you dream up this horseshit?

 

[meaner gene]

We know it wasn't a single rogue individual who came to that conclusion, it was 39 different national security, counter intelligence, and law enforcement officials who came to the same conclusion.

Each requested to know who the traitor (aka American 1) was.

There was no f-ing traitor by their own admission. Where do you dream up this horseshit?

We know of 39 government officials who thought Flynn was a traitor. Who requested the NSA reveal the identity of American 1 because he was a danger to national security.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

We know it wasn't a single rogue individual who came to that conclusion, it was 39 different national security, counter intelligence, and law enforcement officials who came to the same conclusion.

Each requested to know who the traitor (aka American 1) was.

There was no f-ing traitor by their own admission. Where do you dream up this horseshit?

We know of 39 government officials who thought Flynn was a traitor. Who requested the NSA reveal the identity of American 1 because he was a danger to national security.

He was the incoming NSA. How would that be a threat even if they thought that. They were fishing!

 

[meaner gene]

We know of 39 government officials who thought Flynn was a traitor. Who requested the NSA reveal the identity of American 1 because he was a danger to national security.

He was the incoming NSA. How would that be a threat even if they thought that. They were fishing!

They didn't know it was the incoming NSA until they "unmasked" American 1. And they requested that unmasking because they thought he was a traitor.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Appeals Court Orders Judge Emmet Sullivan To Explain His Actions In Michael Flynn Case
“ORDERED, on the court’s own motion, that … the district judge file a response addressing petitioner’s request that this court order the district judge to grant the government’s motion to dismiss”

The Court’s mention of Fokker may be significant, as it was one of the main cases cited by Flynn in his Emergency Petition for Mandamus (pdf.), including the following:

The district court’s failure to grant the Government’s Motion to Dismiss defies this Court’s binding precedent in United States v. Fokker Servs., B.V., 818 F.3d 733, 740 (D.C. Cir. 2016).
* * *
This Court has held that the discretion of the Justice Department under Rule 48(a) is predominant, while the role of the judge is ministerial: “[D]ecisions to dismiss pending criminal charges … lie squarely within the ken of prosecutorial discretion” and “‘at the core of the Executive’s duty to see to the faithful execution of the laws.’” Fokker Servs., 818 F.3d at 741 (citation omitted)
* * *
A district court cannot deny the Government’s motion to dismiss because the judge has “a disagreement with the prosecution’s exercise of charging authority,” such as “a view that the defendant should stand trial” or “that more serious charges should be brought.” Fokker Servs., 818 F.3d at 742-43. Nor should a court second-guess the Government’s “conclusion that additional prosecution or punishment would not serve the public interest.” Id. at 743…."

Appeals Court Orders Judge Emmet Sullivan To Explain His Actions In Michael Flynn Case

"ORDERED, on the court's own motion, that ... the district judge file a response addressing petitioner's request that this court order the district judge to grant the government's motion to dismiss"

legalinsurrection.com

 

[PoliticalChic]

"A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. It was discovered that the condemned man was actually innocent. But the sentence would be carried out, reasoned the hanging judge because the partisan mob must not be left disappointed. (It would also be a waste of good lumber.)

A metaphorical story, yes. But the underlying facts bear a disturbing resemblance to the treatment of Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser.

In early 2017, the retired three-star general was deviously set up and framed by James Comey’s FBI for a crime he did not commit. Thereafter, he was coerced by special counsel Robert Mueller’s unscrupulous prosecutors into pleading guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI, even though the evidence now shows he did not lie.

The presiding federal judge in the Flynn case, Emmet Sullivan, is utterly unbothered by the newly revealed evidence of the defendant’s innocence. He seems determined to carry out the sentencing to satisfy the partisan media mob and Democrats who agitate for the punishment of a Trump ally. Ready the scaffold.

Judge Sullivan might want to revisit Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution. It circumscribes the role of a judge to preside over “controversies to which the United States shall be a party.”

Michael Flynn judge – kick him off the case or order him to follow the law | Gregg Jarrett

A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. It was discovered that the condemned man was actually innocent. But the sentence would be carried out, reasoned the hanging judge because the partisan mob must not be left disappointed.

thegreggjarrett.com

 

[PoliticalChic]

"Appeals Court Orders Judge Emmet Sullivan to Dismiss Michael Flynn Criminal Prosecution
Posted by William A. Jacobson Wednesday, June 24, 2020 at 10:53am
“The district court’s orders appointing an amicus … and scheduling the proposed hearing therefore constitute clear legal error….’
In this case, the district court’s actions will result in specific harms to the exercise of the Executive Branch’s exclusive prosecutorial power. The contemplated proceedings would likely require the Executive to reveal the internal deliberative process behind its exercise of prosecutorial discretion, interfering with the Article II charging authority…. Thus, the district court’s appointment of the amicus and demonstrated intent to scrutinize the reasoning and motives of the Department of Justice constitute irreparable harms that cannot be remedied on appeal…. "

Appeals Court Orders Judge Emmet Sullivan to Dismiss Michael Flynn Criminal Prosecution

"The district court’s orders appointing an amicus ... and scheduling the proposed hearing therefore constitute clear legal error....'

legalinsurrection.com

 

[Sunsettommy]

"A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. It was discovered that the condemned man was actually innocent. But the sentence would be carried out, reasoned the hanging judge because the partisan mob must not be left disappointed. (It would also be a waste of good lumber.)

A metaphorical story, yes. But the underlying facts bear a disturbing resemblance to the treatment of Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser.

In early 2017, the retired three-star general was deviously set up and framed by James Comey’s FBI for a crime he did not commit. Thereafter, he was coerced by special counsel Robert Mueller’s unscrupulous prosecutors into pleading guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI, even though the evidence now shows he did not lie.

The presiding federal judge in the Flynn case, Emmet Sullivan, is utterly unbothered by the newly revealed evidence of the defendant’s innocence. He seems determined to carry out the sentencing to satisfy the partisan media mob and Democrats who agitate for the punishment of a Trump ally. Ready the scaffold.

Judge Sullivan might want to revisit Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution. It circumscribes the role of a judge to preside over “controversies to which the United States shall be a party.”

Michael Flynn judge – kick him off the case or order him to follow the law | Gregg Jarrett

A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. It was discovered that the condemned man was actually innocent. But the sentence would be carried out, reasoned the hanging judge because the partisan mob must not be left disappointed.

thegreggjarrett.com

The SCOTUS decision Sullivan ignored during his absurd third party adventurism.

"The defense had no alternative but to seek a writ of mandamus from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to direct Sullivan to follow the law by dismissing the case and ordering him removed from any further proceedings. The chief judge of that very court ruled four years ago that a trial court judge cannot countermand the decision by prosecutors to dismiss criminal charges (U.S. v. Fokker Servs., B.V., 818 F.3rd 733, 740, D.C. Cir., 2016)."

Sullivan should be removed for his abuse of law.

 

[PoliticalChic]

"A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. It was discovered that the condemned man was actually innocent. But the sentence would be carried out, reasoned the hanging judge because the partisan mob must not be left disappointed. (It would also be a waste of good lumber.)

A metaphorical story, yes. But the underlying facts bear a disturbing resemblance to the treatment of Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser.

In early 2017, the retired three-star general was deviously set up and framed by James Comey’s FBI for a crime he did not commit. Thereafter, he was coerced by special counsel Robert Mueller’s unscrupulous prosecutors into pleading guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI, even though the evidence now shows he did not lie.

The presiding federal judge in the Flynn case, Emmet Sullivan, is utterly unbothered by the newly revealed evidence of the defendant’s innocence. He seems determined to carry out the sentencing to satisfy the partisan media mob and Democrats who agitate for the punishment of a Trump ally. Ready the scaffold.

Judge Sullivan might want to revisit Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution. It circumscribes the role of a judge to preside over “controversies to which the United States shall be a party.”

Michael Flynn judge – kick him off the case or order him to follow the law | Gregg Jarrett

A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. It was discovered that the condemned man was actually innocent. But the sentence would be carried out, reasoned the hanging judge because the partisan mob must not be left disappointed.

thegreggjarrett.com

The SCOTUS decision Sullivan ignored during his absurd third party adventurism.

"The defense had no alternative but to seek a writ of mandamus from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to direct Sullivan to follow the law by dismissing the case and ordering him removed from any further proceedings. The chief judge of that very court ruled four years ago that a trial court judge cannot countermand the decision by prosecutors to dismiss criminal charges (U.S. v. Fokker Servs., B.V., 818 F.3rd 733, 740, D.C. Cir., 2016)."

Sullivan should be removed for his abuse of law.

Democrats and their allies are lawless and a fifth column in our country.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Let's continue to prove you an imbecile, 'cause it's fun.


"Days after the Ignatius story broke, Vice President Mike Pence said on TV that Flynn had assured him there was no talk of sanctions. Either Pence had misunderstood, or Flynn didn’t explain himself clearly enough.

Which explains why the FBI sent it's agents in to question Flynn to "clear up" whether it was Pence who misunderstood Flynn, or whether Flynn lied to Pence.

The result was clear, that Flynn lied to both Pence and the FBI.

Which is why Trump fired Flynn.

I just proved he never lied.....which is why you cut the post off.

"Strzok notes: Comey deemed Flynn calls with Kislyak 'legit,' but investigated anyway
Notes also suggest Obama asked for 'the right people' to look into the matter.


...former FBI Director James Comey believed Gen. Michael Flynn's calls to a Russian ambassador were "legit" several weeks before federal agents interviewed him about those calls anyway.

The partially redacted notes, disclosed by the Department of Justice on Tuesday, appear to refer to a meeting between President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Comey, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, and National Security Adviser Susan Rice during the waning days of the Obama administration.

Rice in an email she sent to herself had previously referenced a meeting that took place on Jan. 5 with those individuals. "

Strzok notes: Comey deemed Flynn calls with Kislyak 'legit,' but investigated anyway

Notes also suggest Obama asked for 'the right people' to look into the matter.

justthenews.com

 

[Sunsettommy]

"A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. It was discovered that the condemned man was actually innocent. But the sentence would be carried out, reasoned the hanging judge because the partisan mob must not be left disappointed. (It would also be a waste of good lumber.)

A metaphorical story, yes. But the underlying facts bear a disturbing resemblance to the treatment of Gen. Michael Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser.

In early 2017, the retired three-star general was deviously set up and framed by James Comey’s FBI for a crime he did not commit. Thereafter, he was coerced by special counsel Robert Mueller’s unscrupulous prosecutors into pleading guilty to the charge of lying to the FBI, even though the evidence now shows he did not lie.

The presiding federal judge in the Flynn case, Emmet Sullivan, is utterly unbothered by the newly revealed evidence of the defendant’s innocence. He seems determined to carry out the sentencing to satisfy the partisan media mob and Democrats who agitate for the punishment of a Trump ally. Ready the scaffold.

Judge Sullivan might want to revisit Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution. It circumscribes the role of a judge to preside over “controversies to which the United States shall be a party.”

Michael Flynn judge – kick him off the case or order him to follow the law | Gregg Jarrett

A funny thing happened on the way to the gallows. It was discovered that the condemned man was actually innocent. But the sentence would be carried out, reasoned the hanging judge because the partisan mob must not be left disappointed.

thegreggjarrett.com

The SCOTUS decision Sullivan ignored during his absurd third party adventurism.

"The defense had no alternative but to seek a writ of mandamus from the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to direct Sullivan to follow the law by dismissing the case and ordering him removed from any further proceedings. The chief judge of that very court ruled four years ago that a trial court judge cannot countermand the decision by prosecutors to dismiss criminal charges (U.S. v. Fokker Servs., B.V., 818 F.3rd 733, 740, D.C. Cir., 2016)."

Sullivan should be removed for his abuse of law.

Democrats and their allies are lawless and a fifth column in our country.

I wonder what bullshit meaner gene has to offer, he ignores exculpatory evidence, he ignores the released FBI documents showing perjury entrapment efforts, he ignored the initial FBI decision that Flynn didn't lie, he ignores the released Flynn/Kislyak phone transcripts showing Flynn didn't do anything illegal, he ignores the Prosecutors decision to drop the case.

It is amazing how feeble leftists can be in their stupid denials of reality.

 

[Eric Arthur Blair]

How was he prosecuted without his being unmasked? Oops! That's unfortunate for your line of thinking, isn't it?

What you don't address is why did 39 government officials request American 1 who was conspiring with the russian ambassador to undermine US national security request to know who the traitor was?

There must be a reason why you insist Flynn was plotting with Ambassador Kislyak to undermine national security. You must have an encyclopedic knowledge of Flynn's interactions with the Russian.

Please fill us all in so we all know you aren't full of crap. 39 or 390 "different national security, counter intelligence, and law enforcement officials" can all come to false and erroneous conclusions if their decisions
aren't based on facts but partisan political considerations.

Explain yourself.

 

[Sunsettommy]

The Last Refuge

Agent Strzok CYA Memo? – Strzok Notes Indicate Obama White House Involvement in Targeting Michael Flynn…
Posted on June 24, 2020 by sundance

Excerpt:

In a court filing yesterday [pdf here] the DOJ provided -initially under seal- the Flynn defense team with more exculpatory evidence. The filing includes hand-written notes taken by FBI agent Peter Strzok in/around key dates in early January 2017.

The filing was unsealed today, and the Peter Strzok notes are released.



One of the reasons CTH has been slow on discussing this release is specifically because I am trying to accurately determine the provenance of the notes (as below). USAO Jeff Jensen is unsure of the exact date of the notes. Either January 3rd, 4th, or 5th… and there’s a good reason for that confusing ambiguity; which I am attempting to filter.

The notes are written by Peter Strzok during a conversation with former FBI Director James Comey; that context is important. What the notes contain are Peter Strzok writing down what Comey relays to him from conversations with White House officials.

Repeat: The notes are Strzok writing down what Comey relays to him from conversations with the White House. Comey is communicating to Strzok the status of opinion from various officials; those officials may include President Obama and Vice-President Biden.

Lot more in the LINK

 

[PoliticalChic]

Not the law, not logic, not rectitude matter when a federal judge decides to substitute his leanings for the law.


“There is a joke lawyers who practice in Federal Court like to tell. Angel Gabriel summons Sigmund Freud in heaven and tells him God is having delusions of grandeur. Freud asks how God can have delusions of grandeur: There is no one grander than Him. To which the Angel Gabriel responded, "he thinks he's a judge."
Alan Dershowitz



1. The insoluble puzzle is how judges get away with this, and the answer is, there is no power to stop them.
A series of essays, written under the name ‘Brutus,’ warned of exactly the situation we find ourselves in today:

“…they have made the judges independent, in the fullest sense of the word. There is no power above them, to controul any of their decisions. There is no authority that can remove them, and they cannot be controuled by the laws of the legislature. In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.”
Brutus, March 20, 1788
Anti-Federalist Papers: Brutus #15



2. And that is why we have “Judge Emmet Sullivan’s outrage over General Michael Flynn’s desire to withdraw his guilty plea, let us just say our eyes are dry. The judge has gone so far as to appoint an ex-judge to recommend whether to charge the general for lying when he pled guilty. As if such pleading guilty to a crime one didn’t commit is all that unusual.

Where’s the logic of Judge Sullivan getting up on his high horse over the idea that someone in his court might move to withdraw a guilty plea? The idea that General Flynn was uncomfortable with his own plea deal can’t be a surprise to the judge. It was already in the air when the judge erupted at the general at a now-infamous hearing in open court back in December 2018.

…. imagine how humiliated Judge Sullivan must feel now. He failed, after all, to see, or unearth, the abuses by the FBI brass and the Special Counsel’s prosecutors. The Justice Department itself beat the judge to the story of the abuses by the Justice Department’s own officers.

That’s the context in which to view Judge Sullivan’s fury over the idea that an Army lieutenant general, who served in combat zones, might crumple in the face of a prosecutorial onslaught and plead to a felony he didn’t commit. Is it true, as General Flynn and various news stories suggested, that prosecutors threatened to pursue the general’s son? Why isn’t Judge Sullivan himself pressing that question?” Judge Sullivan Ignores Shocking Record of False Guilty Pleas



3. One can only conjecture as to who is the greater dunce, Judge Sullivan, or those who claim “I’m extremely very proud of Judge Sullivan for not allowing this kind of corruption in his court. He is not intimidated and tough. This is a slap to the face of Barr’s corruption.
This is a corruption clear and simple by this administration against American justice system to the core.” Judge Sullivan Scrambles For A Lifeline To Bail HIMSELF Out Of Dropped Flynn Case



Flynn was set up by the liar-in-chief, framed by Obama's Deep State, and Sullivan is outraged that he may get out from under the Fascist boot.

"Mandamus—when a superior court orders a lower court to carry out its legal duty—is an extraordinary remedy that should only be granted in exceptional cases.

Flynn’s is one such case.

The three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit certainly agreed. It ordered Sullivan to grant the Justice Department’s unopposed motion to dismiss the charges against Flynn, in which the Justice Department asserted that his actions, in fact, could not have constituted a crime.

It is something Sullivan should have done without an order from the D.C. Circuit.

As part of its order, the circuit court also ruled that Sullivan’s appointment of an amicus to argue against the dismissal was moot. But the appointment was a dubious move to begin with, given the Supreme Court’s recent reversal of the 9th Circuit in United States v. Sineneng-Smith for engaging in similar behavior that the justices called an “abuse of discretion.”

Judge Neomi Rao of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit didn’t hesitate to criticize the appointment of the amicus, saying that “[t]he district court chose an amicus who had publicly advocated for a full adversarial process” and that the amicus had relied on “news stories, tweets, and other facts outside the record” to do so.


Enough is enough.

The D.C. Circuit should decline Sullivan’s petition for a rehearing. He should at long last grant the government’s motion to dismiss an unjustified prosecution that seems to have been ginned up by government officials to get Flynn fired from his position as Trump’s national security adviser.

It’s time to follow the lead of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey—and shut down this circus."

It's Time to Shut Down Judge Sullivan’s 3-Ring Circus in Flynn Case

From a crass political standpoint, Judge Sullivan is taking a calculated gamble with his petition for an en banc rehearing in the Flynn case.

www.dailysignal.com

 

[Billiejeens]

Not the law, not logic, not rectitude matter when a federal judge decides to substitute his leanings for the law.


“There is a joke lawyers who practice in Federal Court like to tell. Angel Gabriel summons Sigmund Freud in heaven and tells him God is having delusions of grandeur. Freud asks how God can have delusions of grandeur: There is no one grander than Him. To which the Angel Gabriel responded, "he thinks he's a judge."
Alan Dershowitz



1. The insoluble puzzle is how judges get away with this, and the answer is, there is no power to stop them.
A series of essays, written under the name ‘Brutus,’ warned of exactly the situation we find ourselves in today:

“…they have made the judges independent, in the fullest sense of the word. There is no power above them, to controul any of their decisions. There is no authority that can remove them, and they cannot be controuled by the laws of the legislature. In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.”
Brutus, March 20, 1788
Anti-Federalist Papers: Brutus #15



2. And that is why we have “Judge Emmet Sullivan’s outrage over General Michael Flynn’s desire to withdraw his guilty plea, let us just say our eyes are dry. The judge has gone so far as to appoint an ex-judge to recommend whether to charge the general for lying when he pled guilty. As if such pleading guilty to a crime one didn’t commit is all that unusual.

Where’s the logic of Judge Sullivan getting up on his high horse over the idea that someone in his court might move to withdraw a guilty plea? The idea that General Flynn was uncomfortable with his own plea deal can’t be a surprise to the judge. It was already in the air when the judge erupted at the general at a now-infamous hearing in open court back in December 2018.

…. imagine how humiliated Judge Sullivan must feel now. He failed, after all, to see, or unearth, the abuses by the FBI brass and the Special Counsel’s prosecutors. The Justice Department itself beat the judge to the story of the abuses by the Justice Department’s own officers.

That’s the context in which to view Judge Sullivan’s fury over the idea that an Army lieutenant general, who served in combat zones, might crumple in the face of a prosecutorial onslaught and plead to a felony he didn’t commit. Is it true, as General Flynn and various news stories suggested, that prosecutors threatened to pursue the general’s son? Why isn’t Judge Sullivan himself pressing that question?” Judge Sullivan Ignores Shocking Record of False Guilty Pleas



3. One can only conjecture as to who is the greater dunce, Judge Sullivan, or those who claim “I’m extremely very proud of Judge Sullivan for not allowing this kind of corruption in his court. He is not intimidated and tough. This is a slap to the face of Barr’s corruption.
This is a corruption clear and simple by this administration against American justice system to the core.” Judge Sullivan Scrambles For A Lifeline To Bail HIMSELF Out Of Dropped Flynn Case



Flynn was set up by the liar-in-chief, framed by Obama's Deep State, and Sullivan is outraged that he may get out from under the Fascist boot.

Someone much higher up the chain is pulling sullivans leash.

 

[Billiejeens]

Judge Sullivan can’t even be consistent.

He used ‘Brady’ to clear a defendant in an earlier case…..now he ignores it.


From the NYSun:

4. "Who was Brady, anyhow? We ask because of the incredible evidence “suggesting,” as the Wall Street Journal puts it, that the FBI withheld exculpatory information from General Michael Flynn when President Trump’s first national security adviser was being maneuvered into the guilty plea that he is now trying to withdraw. The obligation of prosecutors to disclose exculpatory material is called the “Brady Rule.” Hence our question.


It turns out that John Leo Brady was a 25-year-old murderer from Maryland. He entered the pantheon of precedent because of a Supreme Court case called Brady v. Maryland, decided in 1963. Brady and a 24-year-old companion were convicted of murdering a man they knew, William Brooks. The prosecution withheld from Brady’s defense that his companion had not only admitted doing the killing but also that he’d done it alone.

The Supreme Court, in a decision written by Justice William O. Douglas, decided that Brady’s due process right had been violated. It gave him a new sentencing hearing, which spared him the death sentence he was originally given and jailed him for life. Brady eventually was paroled. The precedent, though, has been in use since and the rule has even, in some jurisdictions (including New York) been tightened.



The thing that gets us here is the failure of the liberal press. It has long loved the Brady Rule. The New York Times has been particularly eloquent when it comes to Brady violations by, say, prosecutors in New Orleans. On the 50th anniversary of Brady, the Times backed “open files reform,” under which prosecutors’ files would be generally opened. Yet Brady abuses in the Flynn case have found the liberal papers loath to speak up for their own principles in the Trump era.” The Flynn Case: Liberal Press Fails To Speak Up for Its Own Principles

It's not his call.
Someone much higher up.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Not the law, not logic, not rectitude matter when a federal judge decides to substitute his leanings for the law.


“There is a joke lawyers who practice in Federal Court like to tell. Angel Gabriel summons Sigmund Freud in heaven and tells him God is having delusions of grandeur. Freud asks how God can have delusions of grandeur: There is no one grander than Him. To which the Angel Gabriel responded, "he thinks he's a judge."
Alan Dershowitz



1. The insoluble puzzle is how judges get away with this, and the answer is, there is no power to stop them.
A series of essays, written under the name ‘Brutus,’ warned of exactly the situation we find ourselves in today:

“…they have made the judges independent, in the fullest sense of the word. There is no power above them, to controul any of their decisions. There is no authority that can remove them, and they cannot be controuled by the laws of the legislature. In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.”
Brutus, March 20, 1788
Anti-Federalist Papers: Brutus #15



2. And that is why we have “Judge Emmet Sullivan’s outrage over General Michael Flynn’s desire to withdraw his guilty plea, let us just say our eyes are dry. The judge has gone so far as to appoint an ex-judge to recommend whether to charge the general for lying when he pled guilty. As if such pleading guilty to a crime one didn’t commit is all that unusual.

Where’s the logic of Judge Sullivan getting up on his high horse over the idea that someone in his court might move to withdraw a guilty plea? The idea that General Flynn was uncomfortable with his own plea deal can’t be a surprise to the judge. It was already in the air when the judge erupted at the general at a now-infamous hearing in open court back in December 2018.

…. imagine how humiliated Judge Sullivan must feel now. He failed, after all, to see, or unearth, the abuses by the FBI brass and the Special Counsel’s prosecutors. The Justice Department itself beat the judge to the story of the abuses by the Justice Department’s own officers.

That’s the context in which to view Judge Sullivan’s fury over the idea that an Army lieutenant general, who served in combat zones, might crumple in the face of a prosecutorial onslaught and plead to a felony he didn’t commit. Is it true, as General Flynn and various news stories suggested, that prosecutors threatened to pursue the general’s son? Why isn’t Judge Sullivan himself pressing that question?” Judge Sullivan Ignores Shocking Record of False Guilty Pleas



3. One can only conjecture as to who is the greater dunce, Judge Sullivan, or those who claim “I’m extremely very proud of Judge Sullivan for not allowing this kind of corruption in his court. He is not intimidated and tough. This is a slap to the face of Barr’s corruption.
This is a corruption clear and simple by this administration against American justice system to the core.” Judge Sullivan Scrambles For A Lifeline To Bail HIMSELF Out Of Dropped Flynn Case



Flynn was set up by the liar-in-chief, framed by Obama's Deep State, and Sullivan is outraged that he may get out from under the Fascist boot.

Someone much higher up the chain is pulling sullivans leash.

Karl Marx??????

 

[TheParser]

Let's tell it as it is.

His Honor was appointed for political reasons, not because of any legal competence.

So His Honor is going to stay on the bench for as long as he can.

The Republicans would not dare impeach him -- for obvious reasons.

And the Dems love him for being a loyal supporter.

President Biden will be appointing a lot more Judge Sullivans.

 

[PoliticalChic]

Let's tell it as it is.

His Honor was appointed for political reasons, not because of any legal competence.

So His Honor is going to stay on the bench for as long as he can.

The Republicans would not dare impeach him -- for obvious reasons.

And the Dems love him for being a loyal supporter.

President Biden will be appointing a lot more Judge Sullivans.

You've got a handle on this issue, P.

 

[Billiejeens]

Not the law, not logic, not rectitude matter when a federal judge decides to substitute his leanings for the law.


“There is a joke lawyers who practice in Federal Court like to tell. Angel Gabriel summons Sigmund Freud in heaven and tells him God is having delusions of grandeur. Freud asks how God can have delusions of grandeur: There is no one grander than Him. To which the Angel Gabriel responded, "he thinks he's a judge."
Alan Dershowitz



1. The insoluble puzzle is how judges get away with this, and the answer is, there is no power to stop them.
A series of essays, written under the name ‘Brutus,’ warned of exactly the situation we find ourselves in today:

“…they have made the judges independent, in the fullest sense of the word. There is no power above them, to controul any of their decisions. There is no authority that can remove them, and they cannot be controuled by the laws of the legislature. In short, they are independent of the people, of the legislature, and of every power under heaven. Men placed in this situation will generally soon feel themselves independent of heaven itself.”
Brutus, March 20, 1788
Anti-Federalist Papers: Brutus #15



2. And that is why we have “Judge Emmet Sullivan’s outrage over General Michael Flynn’s desire to withdraw his guilty plea, let us just say our eyes are dry. The judge has gone so far as to appoint an ex-judge to recommend whether to charge the general for lying when he pled guilty. As if such pleading guilty to a crime one didn’t commit is all that unusual.

Where’s the logic of Judge Sullivan getting up on his high horse over the idea that someone in his court might move to withdraw a guilty plea? The idea that General Flynn was uncomfortable with his own plea deal can’t be a surprise to the judge. It was already in the air when the judge erupted at the general at a now-infamous hearing in open court back in December 2018.

…. imagine how humiliated Judge Sullivan must feel now. He failed, after all, to see, or unearth, the abuses by the FBI brass and the Special Counsel’s prosecutors. The Justice Department itself beat the judge to the story of the abuses by the Justice Department’s own officers.

That’s the context in which to view Judge Sullivan’s fury over the idea that an Army lieutenant general, who served in combat zones, might crumple in the face of a prosecutorial onslaught and plead to a felony he didn’t commit. Is it true, as General Flynn and various news stories suggested, that prosecutors threatened to pursue the general’s son? Why isn’t Judge Sullivan himself pressing that question?” Judge Sullivan Ignores Shocking Record of False Guilty Pleas



3. One can only conjecture as to who is the greater dunce, Judge Sullivan, or those who claim “I’m extremely very proud of Judge Sullivan for not allowing this kind of corruption in his court. He is not intimidated and tough. This is a slap to the face of Barr’s corruption.
This is a corruption clear and simple by this administration against American justice system to the core.” Judge Sullivan Scrambles For A Lifeline To Bail HIMSELF Out Of Dropped Flynn Case



Flynn was set up by the liar-in-chief, framed by Obama's Deep State, and Sullivan is outraged that he may get out from under the Fascist boot.

Someone much higher up the chain is pulling sullivans leash.

Karl Marx??????

You are not wrong -

But, Marx is using the higher ups in the previous admin. to carry it out.