A judge’s decision in the Michael Flynn case to allow third parties a say in whether the case should be dismissed is being blasted.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan said on Tuesday he would accept friend-of-the court briefs in response to the dismissal request from the Justice Department. Flynn had pleaded to lying to federal agents.
“This is an outrageous decision by a judge who’s now placed himself into that, you know, awful category of an activist who’s willing to set aside rules, set aside ethics, set aside precedent, and just go in a direction because he is politically motivated to do so," former Utah U.S. .Attorney Brett Tolman told "Fox & Friends" Wednesday.
And, according to Fox News, Flynn's attorney Sidney Powell wrote in a court filing: "A criminal case is a dispute between the United States and a criminal defendant. There is no place for third parties to meddle in the dispute, and certainly not to usurp the role of the government’s counsel.”
Andrew McCarthy, a contributor editor at the National Review and a former assistant U.S. attorney, called the decision: “a bizarre order.”
And he added: “The cantankerous jurist is stoking opposition to the dismissal. He knows the law calls for him to accede to attorney general Bill Barr’s decision.”
He labeled the judge’s order “a travesty.”
National security attorney Brad Moss told Fox News it was an unusual order for a criminal case. He added: "But Judge Sullivan is known to have an unconventional streak."
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