Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Here’s Why Judge Sullivan Can’t Legally Punish Michael Flynn For ‘Perjury’
The Federalist ^ | May 18, 2020 | Leslie McAdoo Gordon

Posted on 05/18/2020 7:31:42 AM PDT by Kaslin

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-45 next last

1 posted on 05/18/2020 7:31:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Since when has the Rule of Law ever been of any concern to the Commies who have infiltrated OUR Government?


2 posted on 05/18/2020 7:35:40 AM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

This insanity should get Sullivan removed. He can hardly be considered qualified to be a judge when he demonstrates such extreme political bias.

He’s better suited for a Third World dictatorship or Chicago.


3 posted on 05/18/2020 7:36:09 AM PDT by jazminerose (Vince Foster died of coronavirus.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Folks wonder why the President didn’t fire everyone when he took office. These people will not obey any law or precedent. They will challenge anything to keep conservatives from any power whether whether they can do it legally or not. It is all they have.

They have no capacity to honor anyone or the Constitution.


4 posted on 05/18/2020 7:36:10 AM PDT by taterjay
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Thanks.


5 posted on 05/18/2020 7:39:21 AM PDT by Rusty0604 (2020 four moare years!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Dopey ol’Judge Bozo Emmet Sullivan is keeping Flynn on the torture rack and running up more legal bills. Let’s hope some wealthy benefactor is paying Flynn’s lawyer Sidney Powell, who has done a boffo job.


6 posted on 05/18/2020 7:39:54 AM PDT by dennisw
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

This judge needs to cut bait.


7 posted on 05/18/2020 7:39:57 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Remember when American Generals had nick-names like “Blood and Guts,” or “Stonewall” or “Vinegar Joe?”

Instead we have Beltway marshmallows who are so a part of the swamp, and so afraid of the perfumed apparatchiks of the FBI, they plead guilty to manufactured charges on crimes they didn’t commit.


8 posted on 05/18/2020 7:40:09 AM PDT by PGR88
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

The writer makes a good case based on the facts of the law. Sullivan will make his decision not based on the law but based on his obvious hate and contempt for Flynn, Bush and others.


9 posted on 05/18/2020 7:40:45 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (Youth, speed and energy can always be overcome with experience and treachery.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jazminerose
He’s better suited for a Third World dictatorship or Chicago.

You don't think DC is a third world shithole? DC road conditions that would embarrass any real third world shithole. This is the city of Marion Barry and his white elitist enablers.

10 posted on 05/18/2020 7:41:38 AM PDT by AndyJackson
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: taterjay

It’s simple really...... as commander in chief, you go to war with what you have.

To second guess Donald Tump is the height of foolishness


11 posted on 05/18/2020 7:44:27 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: taterjay
Folks wonder why the President didn’t fire everyone when he took office.

This has been an annoying characteristic of Republican administrations since Eisenhower. The Eisenhower and Nixon/Ford administrations, in particular, were filled with Democrat holdovers. By contrast, when the Democrats take the presidency, they always clean house.

12 posted on 05/18/2020 7:45:04 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Don’t waste time with legal arguments, this judge isn’t interested in the law or precedent. He’s already thrown that all out the window. He’ll do what he wants, which will inevitably be overturned but he doesn’t care. It’s political with him, not legal.


13 posted on 05/18/2020 7:49:35 AM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: taterjay

“Folks wonder why the President didn’t fire everyone when he took office.”

I agree that most of the hold-overs should be given the gate when a new person takes over. But, the president can’t fire a judge so that wouldn’t have helped in this case.


14 posted on 05/18/2020 7:50:17 AM PDT by jocon307 (Dem party delenda est!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Legally, yeah, good one.

15 posted on 05/18/2020 7:50:23 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Does Sullivan have the sense to know that for Flynn to have committed perjury by pleading guilty when he wasn’t, that the government was guilty of accepting the guilty plea knowing Flynn was innocent?

Are not Jessie Liu and Van Grack therefore guilty of perjury and perpetrating a fraud on the court?

Isn’t Van Grack in criminal contempt for defying the judge’s order to submit all exculpatory material? For submitting falsified 302’s, knowing they were not legitimate evidence?

I presume Gleeson will argue that Flynn obstructed the court’s desire to railroad him by hiring competent defense, submitting exculpatory material recently obtained from Jensen, and reversing his plea.


16 posted on 05/18/2020 8:00:30 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: pepsi_junkie

Absolutely correct. Sullivan is stringing this out to play a waiting game, so that IF Trump isn’t re-elected, Flynn won’t have anyone available to pardon him. Sentencing will happen on the day after the inauguration of the new POTUS. That is what Sullivan is waiting for.


17 posted on 05/18/2020 8:01:14 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin
Well presented argument. I noticed the author didn't mention the intimidation by the FBI regarding his son. I wonder if that actually occurred. As a simple 70 year old layman of the planet, I know that is a routine interview/interrogation technique by law enforcement.

I still don't understand why General Flynn didn't require an attorney being present during a so-called interview. You don't get to be a General without some commonsense. What did the FBI tell him to feel so at ease and not insist they formally request through White House counsel? Was it because he was newly appointed NSA and didn't want to rock the boat during the transition? What? Why?

As I've said over and over, NEVER SAY A WORD UNLESS YOU HAVE LEGAL COUNSEL. Or at the least, use Hillary's words, "I don't recall" "I don't remember" "I have no recollection of that", etc. for what? 70 times?. She set precedence that so many other political liars have followed. That's why it's so hard to nail the Deep State players.

Never say "I don't know". There could be documentation or witness[s] to testify you did know.

It's impossible to disprove that you DON'T REMEMBER.

18 posted on 05/18/2020 8:04:25 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (I'm not Islamophobic - I'm Islamonauseous. Also LGBTQxyz nauseous.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: PGR88

This is a Rope-a-Dope on the part of Flynn.


19 posted on 05/18/2020 8:07:33 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Kaslin

Sullivan doesn’the think he is above the law, he thinks he IS the law.


20 posted on 05/18/2020 8:24:27 AM PDT by richardtavor
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-4041-45 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson