The Flynn case continues to have its unexpected twists and turns. The Washington Post headline reports another twist:
“Federal judge hires high-powered D.C. attorney to defend his actions in Flynn case.”
A quick review of how we got here.
In the ancient history of the Chinese virus, (that would be a couple of months ago) New York’s Governor Andrew Cuomo was the media darling. Cuomo was on cable midday news everyday. The bobbleheads gushed over his handling of the crisis.
The New York Times’ Ben Smith wrote, “The governor has emerged as the executive best suited for the coronavirus crisis.” Carl Bernstein told CNN that Cuomo has demonstrated “real leadership of the kind the president of the United States should have provided to the American people throughout this crisis, but hasn’t.”
On the other end of the spectrum is Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis. DeSantis was blasted by the media for his approach. According to the Miami Herald, “Gov. Ron DeSantis is working overtime to preserve our status as the world’s leading exporter of political comedy.”
The Herald went on to note that while there is no manual for how to handle this threat, DeSantis should contact certain Democratic governors who appeared to be decisive and right on top of the issue. These included Cuomo of New York.
On Thursday, a three panel DC Appeals Court Panel ordered Michael Flynn’s judge, Emmett Sullivan, to respond to the petition for a writ of mandamus within ten days.
In Washington State, Governor Jay Inslee (D) has decided to forcibly quarantine people if they refuse to be tested for the Wuhan coronavirus. Also, if one member of your household tests positive, or if you refuse to be tested, the entire family will be forcibly quarantined.
State Republican Rep. Matt Shea of the Spokane area in eastern Washington, explained in a video interview with The New American magazine that the camps are part of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee’s policy of contract tracing, which has been implemented by many states.
He explained that the tracers visit people who may have been infected and advise them they can isolate at a center to protect other members of their household.
While the infected person may be asked to volunteer, the government makes it clear that people can be forcibly quarantined, Shea pointed out.
He read a line from a form that local health officers are to present to someone who is infected.
It says: “If you do not comply with this request for voluntary quarantine I may/will sign a detention order, enforced by the police, to ensure your compliance.”
Previously I had referred to the Sullivan courtroom as a circus. Unfortunately that is not true. There isn’t anything funny or humorous going on here. And to call this a kangaroo court would be elevating this to a status that is far beyond what it really is.
This is an attempt to lynch Flynn. There is a complete absence of the rule of law. Sullivan is making it up as he goes along. He is taking pieces of civil procedure and dropping them into a criminal case. Sullivan has one simple thing to do here and that is grant the motion to dismiss that he has no authority to deny. Sullivan appointing an “amicus” to act as prosecutor shows that he has gone completely off the rails. Sullivan appears to be out to get Flynn by any means necessary.
In an absolutely bizarre twist in the Flynn case, the retired judge who was appointed to file an amicus brief with the court is now requesting a briefing schedule, oral arguments and the possibility of interviewing witnesses.
There are literally thousands of memes circulating on the internet about the Wuhan virus pandemic. Some are funny. Some express satire. Others are directed at one political party or the other, at one political personage or another. And then there are some like this one.
This is absolutely nuts. This is outdoors.
The big blue version of the ‘new normal’ is now saying that the Wuhan virus variant in Massachusetts is targeting people based on their direction of travel. The police are painting fluorescent arrows on the sidewalk to inform the public which way to walk in order to avoid being attacked by the virus.
Last week the DOJ filed a motion in the Michael Flynn case to dismiss the charges against Flynn “with prejudice.” This would mean that the long nightmare would be over for LTG Flynn. Certainly part of the reason the dismissal request was made was the Brady material that a US Attorney from Missouri found that had never been given to the Flynn defense. This material was exculpatory and also demonstrated that Flynn had been framed by the FBI. Other declassified material also demonstrated egregious prosecutorial misconduct.
AG Barr recognized that such material would continue to be presented to the court by Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell. Barr also recognized that there had been a witch hunt to get Flynn. Rather than air all this dirty laundry out in a public courtroom, Barr decided to right an injustice and filed to dismiss the charges.
California is known for its earthquakes. The possibility of the proverbial “Big One” is talked about frequently. And at some time in the future, the likelihood exists that the Big One will hit somewhere in California.
An earthquake happened on Tuesday. However, it was not the earth moving. It was a political earthquake. In a special election in House district CA25, a Republican appears to have defeated a Democrat. This is a district that went by 9 points to the Democrat in 2018 and was won by Hillary Clinton in 2016. At this point the Republican is winning by 12 points (roughly 17,000 votes). Of course, we have to wait until the voter fraud activities (aka ballot harvesting) by the Democrats are over. Apparently they have until Friday to get ballots in to be counted. That is just crazy.