BY FLORIDA BILL
Federal District Judge Emmett G. Sullivan of the D.C. Circuit, has been notified by Attorney General William Barr that the government is dismissing all charges against the former NSA Director, Gen. Michael Flynn.
The message to Sullivan is clear and unambiguous, but the 72-year-old jurist with long existing ties to the Democratic party, doesn't like it. Nevertheless, the prosecution of Gen. Flynn is over, and the retired, three-star general has been exonerated and vindicated of charges that he lied to FBI agents interviewing him. At a recent hearing, Sullivan was asked to formally sign an order dismissing the case as is normal procedure when the prosecutor elects not to prosecute.
The veteran judge stunned his crowded courtroom by declining to dismiss the case, and instead called for Amicus Curie briefs to help him decide how to respond to the motion from the Attorney General. Should he dismiss the case as requested by the government's chief lawyer, or should he allow Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea; or should he dig real deep and hold the defendant in direct contempt and maybe imprison him?
In truth, his courtroom demeanor and handling of the matter borders on the absurd, and the judge is pathetic in his failure to understand the political machinations employed by the FBI and other Obama loyalists in an effort to destroy General Flynn, and ultimately, bring down President Trump as a handmaiden of Russia..
Sullivan continued the Flynn case for the filing of "Friend of the Court" briefs. Also, he appointed a retired judge, John Gleeson, as his "Amicus" to argue the position that the court should not dismiss the Flynn case. Gleeson, is an ex-law partner of Sullivan's, and is well known and has spoken out in the past with heavy anti-Trump rhetoric.
Former Federal prosecutor, Andrew McCarthy, was quick to recognize the political nonsense and hostility in the behavior of Judge Sullivan, who has demonstrated a continuing bias against General Flynn, and at one previous hearing suggested that the three-star general might have committed treason. Sullivan was appointed to the federal bench in 1994 by President Clinton, and his gratitude to Democrats for the life time job goes on and on.
He has become "unhinged" said McCarthy, and he appears to be organizing an "anti-Trump group therapy session." Amicus Briefs are virtually unheard of in criminal cases, he pointed out, since the parties consist solely of the government prosecutor and a defendant. The opinion of the man on the street is irrelevant as to how the judge rules in a case.
Sullivan is playing to his Democratic friends and is on a path where he cannot prevail and force the prosecution of a defendant over the decision of the government and the Attorney General not to prosecute. Federal judges have immense power, for sure, but the decision as to who will be prosecuted is not the judge's decision to make, and is within the absolute discretion of the Attorney General.
Basically, Judge Sullivan is dallying around because he knows that the media will spotlight him and try and make him look like some sort of a hero. But it is only an illusion, and when the dust clears for history to record, Gen. Flynn has been cleared of these phony charges and hopefully and soon will be restored as a key member of the Trump administration.
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