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A pardon is the last resort because accepting it is an admission of guilt.

Best to play this out to the end in court.

If Biden was to win this is still up in he air,then a Pardon would make sense.

1 posted on 05/15/2020 1:26:35 PM PDT by sickoflibs
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With all of the widespread illegal domestic surveillance going on in the Obama administration, who’s to say they don’t have something on Emmet Sullivan, and they let him know it.


2 posted on 05/15/2020 1:30:58 PM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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I expect the so called judge to have the hearing televised.
So Flynn’s lawyers should lay out the whole coup attempt timeline.


3 posted on 05/15/2020 1:32:01 PM PDT by aimhigh (THIS is His commandment . . . . 1 John 3:23)
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A pardon is the last resort because accepting it is an admission of guilt.

Best to play this out to the end in court.

If Biden was to win this is still up in he air,then a Pardon would make sense.

I agree. Flynn should consider himself exonerated and a free man. Trump should let it play out and use the pardon card after the election, regardless of the outcome. I just hope Flynn has the mental discipline and peace of heart not to let the delay bother him. Somehow I think his military experience has prepared him well.

4 posted on 05/15/2020 1:32:42 PM PDT by true believer forever (Fight the Attacks against Trump: PLANT YOUR FEET, LEAN INTO IT, BEAT IT BACK.)
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I thought Sullivan was a while hat, until someone pointed out to me he dragged Ted Steven’s case through the election, almost certainly causing him to lose, and never followed up on his complaints about the prosecutors.


5 posted on 05/15/2020 1:32:58 PM PDT by Fido969 (In!)
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Two can play at this game. Judge Sullivan will get an offer he can’t refuse!


6 posted on 05/15/2020 1:33:00 PM PDT by DarthVader (Not by speeches & majority decisions will the great issues of the day be decided but by Blood & Iron)
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The reason they want to force a pardon is because it lends credibility to the mueller investigation. Once the Flynn persecution fails, it makes clear the sleazy and extreme lengths they had to go to find anything to charge. It also sheds light on the Stone persecution. Not that any should be needed after the swat team show they put on to arrest him.


7 posted on 05/15/2020 1:38:12 PM PDT by JoSixChip (Pelosi would be third in line to serve as president if Trump, Pence become incapacitated by COVID-19)
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Check the judge’s bank account.


8 posted on 05/15/2020 1:39:20 PM PDT by ptsal (Vote R.E.D. >>>Remove Every Democrat ***)
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If the judge continues to ignore the fact that he’s clearly violating the law, then this will almost certainly end up fixed by an appeals court.

Well, that depends - what's the court of appeals for this case?
9 posted on 05/15/2020 1:40:11 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Namely, that Judge Sullivan is simply a partisan hack
I am betting that 'when the good judge is invited out to one of the worlds best restaurants in DC it's not by conservative leaning friends. Nope, if he wants to get the star treatment he needs to keep the show going. Could all just be simple narcissism. And there are plenty of political hacks willing to pay to influence a judge on a case that they want to go their way.
10 posted on 05/15/2020 1:40:11 PM PDT by dblshot (I am John Galt.)
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A pardon is the last resort because accepting it is an admission of guilt.

No it isn't. Nixon sure as hell never admitted to guilt in anything, for example.

13 posted on 05/15/2020 1:46:21 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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I’m not mystified for even one millisecond. He’s an Obama monkey that hates Republicans and especially Trump. That explains everything he’s done.


14 posted on 05/15/2020 1:47:08 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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Methinks that “Judge” Sullivan, being a liberal and therefore proudly carrying the standard of double standards, really hates the fact that a woman has made him look like the simpleton liberal shyster that he is. If he’s a judge, well, no use respecting that soiled profession any more.

She’s beat his silly *ss at every move and she’s going to do it again.

As we all know, the folks who do not respect women are - wait for it - liberals/progressives, not conservatives.


15 posted on 05/15/2020 1:47:42 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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“If anyone’s got a counter explanation, I’m all ears.”

I have to think that Sullivan is trying to get himself removed from the case, to drag it out further, give the left more excuses to wring their hands, force Trump to finally pardon the victim, etc.


16 posted on 05/15/2020 1:47:47 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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He did not ask for input as to what he should do from friend of the court brief. He specifically asked for an opposition brief to the criminal defendant’s case from an outsider who had never been attendant to the hearings. At that very point, he is no longer a neutral arbiter and he should recuse himself, but he won’t because he is a partisan Democrat judge practicing political stagecraft from the bench.


17 posted on 05/15/2020 1:48:50 PM PDT by chuckee
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In my opinion the judge is keeping this going to silence Flynn. AFAIK the gag order is still in place. No freedom of speech for thee.


18 posted on 05/15/2020 1:51:47 PM PDT by pnut22
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In the past Judge Sullivan has had a reputation for holding prosecutors accountable for misconduct.

The only thing that makes sense to me here is that he is also a #Nevertrumper and that side of him is winning. Still, deep down he has to realize he's acting illegally himself.

20 posted on 05/15/2020 1:59:10 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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Is this just to prevent Trump from hiring and back to the White House? Or appointing him to head the FBI?


21 posted on 05/15/2020 1:59:54 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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bump


22 posted on 05/15/2020 2:02:38 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Some of these people, I met them -- zero interest, Okay? Like zero." -- Donald J. Trump)
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. If anyone’s got a counter explanation, I’m all ears.

Flynn is under a gag order from Sullivan. If the case isn't 'closed', Flynn can't speak.

Any other questions ?

24 posted on 05/15/2020 2:07:17 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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As she says, Judge Sullivan is in direct defiance of several precedents, including one recently set by the Supreme Court (written by Justice Ginsberg, no less)

When you loose Buzzy...you loose Bigly.

25 posted on 05/15/2020 2:07:19 PM PDT by spokeshave
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