Flynn case dropped!!! Democrats revealed as LIARS!!!
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Again some here show they are corrupt and ignorant of the facts. Hey comrade sig want a tip. Check out the headline below ignoramus.
Prosecutor to testify on alleged politicization inside Barr’s Justice Department
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/prosecutor-to-testify-on-alleg
ed-politicization-inside-barr-s-justice-department/ar-BB15URah?ocid=msedgntp
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Quote:Signym, you are crazy to come to that conclusion if you read the actual "reasoning" of the Trump appointed judges.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Justice is served.
Appeals court orders judge to dismiss case against Michael Flynn
www.axios.com/michael-flynn-appeals-court-judge-7fc2c840-35c9-4842-b2b
7-d241d96a3fbf.html
It is not funny that the Trump appointed judge gave Trump what he wanted. The dissenting judge mocks the “reasoning” of the Trump judges “respectfully”:
Wilkins, Circuit Judge, dissenting in part: It is a great irony that, in finding the District Court to have exceeded its jurisdiction, this Court so grievously oversteps its own. This appears to be the first time that we have issued a writ of mandamus to compel a district court to rule in a particular manner on a motion without first giving the lower court a reasonable opportunity to issue its own ruling; the first time any court has held that a district court must grant “leave of court” pursuant to Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a) without even holding a hearing on the merits of the motion; and the first time we have issued the writ even though the petitioner has an adequate alternative remedy, on the theory that another party would not have had an adequate alternate remedy if it had filed a petition as well. Any one of these is sufficient reason to exercise our discretion to deny the petition; together, they compel its rejection. I therefore respectfully dissent from the majority’s grant of the writ.
The Government asserted to us that it has no duty to inform the court in a motion to dismiss pursuant to Rule 48(a) of all of its reasons for seeking dismissal. Today the majority (Trump appointed judges) declares that nevertheless — in spite of the Government’s abrupt reversal on the facts and the law, and although the Government declares itself entitled not to be forthcoming with the District Court — these circumstances merit no further examination to determine whether there may be additional reasons for the prosecutor’s actions, and if so, if any such reasons are impermissible. Under the majority’s interpretation of Rule 48(a), so long as the defendant consents to the dismissal, “leave of court” is a dead letter. I dissent.
Many More Pages about that dissent at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V1MDyK3npBO3NSbKX6x03SonBhF9_xX2/view
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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The dissenting judge, Wilkins, has not weighed in on the merits of the case and whether Flynn is guilty of perjury in addition to lying to the FIB (as the prosecutorial amicus Gleeson opined) but on whether the Appeals Court panel gave sufficient time for the lower court to issue its own ruling.
He did not opine as to what the final outcome of that ruling might be.
Judges are like umpires: they don't decide who should win or lose a case, and they definitely don't bring in a new pitcher or hitter if they don't like the way the game is going ... which is exactly what Emmett Sullivan did.
The majority of judges appeared to be responding to Sullivan's gross overstepping of his authority, and the appeals panel's objecting judge appears to concerned about timing.
I'm not sure what the resolution would be, because if Sullivan decided to drag the case out and delay his ruling indefinitely, then what? Maybe the appeals panel should have directed Sullivan to issue a ruling by date certain; then they could have ensured that all of the lower court steps were completed before issuing their own ruling? The Flynn's lawyer would have appealed the ruling (if unfavorable) and THEN the appeals panel would have issued theirs? That seems to be the remedy that Wilkins would opt for: adding two more steps to the process.
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Quote:Signym, cut the crap, will you please? Judge Wilkins made it very clear: The Government may be entitled to “leave of court” under Rule 48(a) to dismiss the criminal information to which Flynn pled guilty, but that is not for us, as a Court of Appeals, to decide in the first instance. Rather, the District Court must be given a reasonable opportunity to consider and hold a hearing on the Government’s request to ensure that it is not clearly contrary to the public interest. I therefore dissent. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1V1MDyK3npBO3NSbKX6x03SonBhF9_xX2/view
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
The dissenting judge, Wilkins, has not weighed in on the merits of the case and whether Flynn is guilty of perjury in addition to lying to the FIB (as the prosecutorial amicus Gleeson opined) but on whether the Appeals Court panel gave sufficient time for the lower court to issue its own ruling.
He did not opine as to what the final outcome of that ruling might be.
Judges are like umpires: they don't decide who should win or lose a case, and they definitely don't bring in a new pitcher or hitter if they don't like the way the game is going ... which is exactly what Emmett Sullivan did.
The majority of judges appeared to be responding to Sullivan's gross overstepping of his authority, and the appeals panel's objecting judge appears to concerned about timing.
I'm not sure what the resolution would be, because if Sullivan decided to drag the case out and delay his ruling indefinitely, then what? Maybe the appeals panel should have directed Sullivan to issue a ruling by date certain; then they could have ensured that all of the lower court steps were completed before issuing their own ruling? The Flynn's lawyer would have appealed the ruling (if unfavorable) and THEN the appeals panel would have issued theirs? That seems to be the remedy that Wilkins would opt for: adding two more steps to the process.
The other two judges did what they should NOT have done because Trump appointed them to look after his interests, and also hide their self-interested motives behind a bunch of phony-baloney "reasoning", which Judge Wilkins disassembled to show how shoddy their legal craftsmanship was.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Trump Judge Neomi Rao’s Flynn Opinion Is Dangerous and Anti-Democratic
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/michael-flynn-neomi-rao-tr
ump-barr-sullivan.html
Donald Trump’s most brazenly partisan judicial appointee has come through for the president once again.
On Wednesday, in a 2–1 decision, Judge Neomi Rao forced a district court to dismiss the prosecution of Michael Flynn. Rao’s opinion is an exercise in outcome-driven sophistry that barely pretends to be a judicial opinion. While gutting a vital check of executive misconduct, Rao whitewashed the Justice Department’s flagrantly political decision to drop charges against Flynn — hours before the House Judiciary Committee heard whistleblowers testify about political interference at the DOJ, including in Flynn’s case.
There is ample evidence that Barr and Shea got Flynn off the hook at Trump’s behest. This political meddling in a federal prosecution is wildly unethical and extremely disturbing. Luckily, there is a federal rule, 48(a), designed to prevent well-connected defendants from pulling strings in Washington to get their case dismissed.
Because he entered a guilty plea, Flynn has already been convicted. Judge Sullivan’s only remaining task is to hand out a sentence, which had been delayed at the request of special prosecutor Robert Mueller III so that the sentence could be adjusted either up or down based on how cooperative Flynn was with Mueller's investigation.
Judge Rao made three arguments to justify not sentencing Flynn, and none of them can be taken seriously.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/michael-flynn-neomi-rao-tr
ump-barr-sullivan.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah ... TRUMP ... blah blah blah
I supppose the majority judges must be fairly certain of their ruling, because Sullivan himself has the right to appeal, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.
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Quote:That was for the Durham investigations.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Justice is served.
I read a random headline a week or so ago that said that Barr said that investigations will be completed by the end of summer.
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Quote:Hallelujah!
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Appeals Court Orders Flynn Judge To Dismiss Case
In a major victory for Michael Flynn, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ordered Judge Emmet Sullivan to grant the Justice Department's request to dismiss the case against the former Trump National Security Adviser.
"Upon consideration of the emergency petition for a writ of mandamus, the responses thereto, and the reply, the briefs of amici curiae in support of the parties, and the argument by counsel, it is ORDERED that Flynn's petition for a writ of mandamus be granted in part; the District Court is directed to grant the government's Rule 48(a) motion to dismiss; and the District Court's order appointing an amicus is hereby vacated as moot, in accordance with the opinion of the court filed herein this date," reads the order.
Appeals court orders Flynn judge to grant dismissal of the case pic.twitter.com/MmWSDrzHCh
— kadhim (^?^)? (@kadhim) June 24, 2020
In their decision, the appeals court wrote: "Decisions to dismiss pending criminal charges - no less than decisions to initiate charges and to identify which charges to bring - lie squarely within the ken of prosecutorial discretion.
The Judiciary's role under Rule 48 is thus confined to "extremely limited circumstances in extraordinary cases."
Quote:Thanks for posting this, Signy. I was hoping this would be the outcome, but I didn't realize the new court case BY SULLIVAN would be dealt with so swiftly. I assumed his malfeasance would take years to unravel.Quote:
Hence, no dice for Judge Sullivan.
Great! Appeals Court Upholds Justice Departments Request To Drop Criminal Case Against General Michael Flynn!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2020
Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to the FBI about his conversations with former Russian Ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak, during the presidential transition following the 2016 US election. He later withdrew his plea after securing new legal counsel, while evidence emerged which revealed the FBI had laid a 'perjury trap' - despite the fact that the agents who interviewed him in January, 2017 said they thought he was telling the truth. Agents persisted hunting Flynn despite the FBI's recommendation to close the case.
Once the FBI's malfeasance was uncovered, the Justice Department moved to dismiss the case after Attorney General William Barr tapped an outside prosecutor to examine the FBI's conduct. Judge Sullivan rejected the DOJ's request - instead calling on an outside lawyer to make arguments against the DOJ's move to drop the case.
Shortly before the DOJ move to dismiss, former Mueller prosecutor Brandon Van Grack suddenly withdrew from the case (and others). Flynn's new attorney, Sidney Powell, said that government documents revealed "further evidence of misconduct by Mr. Van Grack specifically."
Sullivan urged the federal appeals court to also reject Flynn's bid to bring an end to the case, which has now ruled against the judge.
Here is a more in-depth story
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-06-24/u-s-appeals-court-o
rders-judge-to-dismiss-flynn-case
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Quote:What the Trump appointed judges are certain of is their life-time appointed jobs. They can also be certain that rich Trump donors will secretly pay them for giving Trump exactly what he wants. As University of North Carolina criminal law professor Carissa Byrne Hessick has noted, this principle is utterly inconsistent with democratic accountability. “In order for elections to serve as a remotely effective check on prosecutors,” Hessick explained, “voters need information about the decisions that prosecutors make.” Yet Judge Rao just enshrined into law a new edict that allows federal prosecutors to conceal their entire deliberative process from federal courts—and, by extension, the public.
Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:
Originally posted by SECOND: blah blah blah ... TRUMP ... blah blah blah
I supppose the majority judges must be fairly certain of their ruling, because Sullivan himself has the right to appeal, all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.
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https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/michael-flynn-neomi-rao-tr
ump-barr-sullivan.html
Obviously, the above information won't change the mind of any Trump supporter, but there is more: Judge Rao has run interference for the president before to shield him from meaningful oversight. She routinely acts like Trump’s personal protector rather than an impartial judge, fabricating avant-garde legal theories out of whole cloth that happen to favor the executive every time. But her Wednesday decision crosses the line into new territory. The full D.C. Circuit, sitting en banc, can and should reverse her opinion, which presents a shockingly expansive theory of executive power that overrides the federal judiciary’s ability to identify and stamp out prosecutorial corruption. Under Rao’s rule, federal judges must look the other way when politicians interfere in prosecutions to help their friends—a gross perversion of justice that plainly occurred here. Instead, federal judges must adopt a “see no evil” approach, rubber-stamping prosecutors’ rationalizations even when they reek of corruption. With this opinion, Rao has made herself and her court complicit in that corruption.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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House Republicans Resort to Literally Drowning Out Testimony About DOJ Corruption
As damning as this testimony was, it was quickly overshadowed by the fact that the Judiciary Committee is a clown show. Republicans on the committee immediately sought to derail proceedings by turning to familiar tactics to wreck proceedings any time the committee attempts to address Barr’s efforts to put Trump and his allies above the law. The theatrics have become so predictable they may well be scripted.
On Wednesday, the House Judiciary Committee heard testimony from two Department of Justice attorneys who said that improper political influence had warped multiple cases, including the sentencing recommendation for President Donald Trump’s associate Roger Stone.
These insider accounts of political abuse by Attorney General William Barr confirmed what thousands of former DOJ employees suspected when they recently signed onto letters calling for Barr’s removal. The testimony detailed how federal prosecutors were pressured to change tactics and recommendations based on the president’s tweets and political pressure from the administration.
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/06/louie-gohmert-banging-test
imony-barr-corruption.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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