Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Sullivan Orders DOJ To Verify Docs In Flynn Case | Talking Points Memo

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Federal prosecutors need to provide detailed documentation of allegations of corruption among Obama administration officials, Judge Emmett Sullivan said on Friday.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1340223
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This is the day Flynn becomes aware the jig is up.

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Wow, I guess “trust us, we wouldn’t lie”, doesn’t work for the Trump administration. Actually, it shouldn’t work for any administration.

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The DOJ has to “identify each discovery document by name, date, and author” and “provide transcriptions of all handwritten notes.”

And then when they’re done with all that they have to count all the lentils strewn about the fireplace hearth.

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“The order creates reems of work for DOJ”
So cool to see Judge Sullivan “reem” the DOJ.

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Emptywheel is all over this – there is basically no way that the DOJ can respond to these orders without revealing that they doctored documents in bad faith.

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I continue to marvel at the fact that a bridge over the Interstate south of my home was finished sooner than it has taken this confessed felon to be put in jail

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DOJ: Documentation? We ain’t got no documentation! We don’t need no documentation! I don’t have to show you any stinking documentation!

Judge Sullivan: Actually, you do.

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Flynn doesn’t need to worry. If Trump loses (please!!!) then his pardon will come down on January 19, 2021, mooting the DOJ 180 on January 20.

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It is such a pleasure to see a competent, qualified judge work!

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My fantasy involves all this dragging on til after dRump leaves office.
“About that pardon…”
“Whoops! Sorry Mikey. Not my fault ®”

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These are Federal charges. Why the hell doesn’t Trump just pardon him and save the DOJ the time and embarrassment (and possible troubling revelations)?

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The only reason it has not yet happened is because Trump believes he can ride out any political storm by not taking any position at all, and heaping calumny and innuendo all over the place. He is averse to actually pulling the “pardon alarm”.

The exception was Roger Stone, and we can only speculate on why.

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And angry.

Don’t forget angry.

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Very nice! DoJ prosecutors can decide whether they want to perjure themselves for Flynn, Barr, and Trump, and ruin their careers or come clean. Flynn should really have settled, because the DoJ is getting new management in January.

ETA: And it’s especially delicious that Strozak seems to have opened up this particular can of worms.

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I am not a lawyer, but “don’t piss off the judge” just seems like good life advice.

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But for his gender, he’d be ‘nasty’, as well.

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“The order creates reams of work for the DOJ in its bid to drop charges against Flynn, and compels federal prosecutors to back up numerous claims they’ve made in the case…”

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Judge Sullivan: Ninja level judicial warrior armed with the legal equivalent of Damascus steel blades.

DOJ: 3 year olds carrying the latest Fisher-Price plastic hammer legal tech.

Your move, idiots.

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Is there even a sliver of a chance Trump doesn’t issue a pardon after the election?

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