Posted on 06/24/2020 7:27:08 AM PDT by gandalftb
They’re putting the time of the memo around that Jan 5th meeting.
We cannot let this die. At the very least, Trump should continue to demand transparency and I think he will.
However, I do agree with you - this was slow-rolled to avoid more embarrassing revelations. Not a good sign.
Finally!
He doesn’t have standing to do so, he’s not a party to the case.
I hope so but I very much doubt it. I see kabuki dancing by Barr / Durham with an investigation that we all hang on the edges of our seat for but which (surprise!) is delayed again with no results). Meanwhile DOJ and FBI continue to stonewall, protect the perps in the agencies, and defend the corrupt processes that enabled all this in the first place.
Barr and Wray have one job: protect their agencies and keep the evidence buried. Barr throws some red meat out there (like mentioning how outraged he was at Epstein's murder) but then silently does what a deep state hack would be expected to do (sign off that Epstein's murder was really a suicide enabled by a kooky series of impossible coincidences all happening at once).
Yes.
If the Durham investigation doesn’t come to life in the next 2 months, it will wait until after the election. If Trump loses, it will never go forward. They have been dragging their feet for this very reason in my opinion.
He made himself the prosecutor. He feels he has standing. Another court may disagree. But that doesn't necessarily mean Sullivan will follow the appeals courts direction.
But where does he go to recover his reputation, his life, his money?
I almost wish Sullivan ignores them.
Then they will be forced to sanction his a$$.
Flynn will now be free to talk to the media. Going to be very interesting to hear what he has to say.
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.
That’s because this is the first time some idiot judge has taken it upon himself to refuse to accept the prosecution’s order not to prosecute, dummy.
Not over, only attenuated. General Flynn is still stretched way up there in the air, but the ground is now beckoning.
Happy landings...
The heart of the ruling is that the sole intent of “leave of court” is to protect the defendant. Sullivan knows that and the dissenting judge knows that. They are both corrupt.
When the Court of Appeals held oral arguments, very few read the transcript or listened to CSPAN live. Instead, they relied on the media to tell America what was said and what outcome was likely. Most of them, including so called conservative reporters and commentators, predicted that the Court would allow Judge Sullivan to proceed. The link to the Politico piece was typical
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/12/appeals-court-judge-drop-flynn-case-315536
The few on Free Republic who bothered to follow this and read both the written briefs and the transcript oral arguments had a different take. Judges Henderson and Rao were prepared to go either way, but they clearly understood the law and the Constitution and that the proceedings against Flynn were egregiously unjust, including the actions of Judge Sullivan. Judge Henderson threw a bone to Judge Sullivan, calling him a respected judge, but her questions indicated that she was more interested in the facts. Rao was the most likely vote to dismiss. Judge Wilkins must have thought that the case was about Bubba Wallace’s lynching threat and he was a certain vote to support Judge Sullivan.
All the King’s men and all of the King’s horses argued for a long prison term for an innocent man and they failed. Another lesson for the perils of listening to the media intelligencia.
With this nightmare ended, much of the four years of lying, political corruption, and criminal behavior at the highest levels of the Obama Administration has been exposed and the sand castle will crumble. A good day.
Nothing would surprise me. For example DACA never a piece of legislation (So not a law!), never even actually an executive order as I understand it a policy memo in Zero’s DHS. Somehow morphs into something the USSC can rule on & they do and magically complete the metamorphosis.
So “standing” could come out of the same rarified air the DACA ruling came from!
Judge Wilkins was the dissenting judge. No surprise.
No, it's over.
If Trump loses it doesn’t matter...it will be dismissed!!!
Tomorrow Judge Sullivan will announce that he found a noose in his office.
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