Discretion over whether to accept the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) bid to drop criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn …
Discretion over whether to accept the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) bid to drop criminal charges against President Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn lies with a left-wing judge presiding over the case, explained Hans von Spakovsky, manager of the Heritage Foundation’s Election Law Reform Initiative and a senior legal fellow of the Meese Center for Legal and Judicial Studies.
Flynn is not out of the legal woods yet, warned von Spakovsky on Thursday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight with host Rebecca Mansour and special guest host Ed Martin.
“While what happened today is terrific, everybody needs to keep something in mind,” cautioned von Spakovsky. “Yeah, the government filed a motion to dismiss the criminal prosecution of Michael Flynn with prejudice, but, that has to be approved by the judge in this case, and the judge in this case, Judge [Emmet] Sullivan, he’s a real liberal and he’s a bit eccentric, I guess is a polite way to [say] it.”
Von Spakovsky recalled Judge Emmet Sullivan’s derision of Flynn on December 18,2018, when the judge said, “Arguably, you sold your country out.
