Judge Sullivan continues demonstrating that he is unfit to preside over the Michael Flynn case, by filing an appeal to the full DC Circuit from the ruling of the DC Circuit issuing the writ of mandamus ordering him to grant the motion to dismiss of the government. In his appeal he once again demonstrates that he has ceased to be a judge in the case and has become a litigant whose motivation is to take up the prosecution of Flynn himself. One of the elementary distinctions of our legal system is that between the prosecution and the court. Judge Sullivan seeks to erase this distinction and to wear both caps. This demonstrates that he is unfit to continue as a judge in this case, or, indeed, in any case.
Go here to read Sullivan’s Petition.
Paul Mirengoff has been defending Sullivan’s position, maintaining the writ was irregular. Given that this is a ‘sentencing hearing’ that has run on in installments for 19 months (and given that the ‘crime’ was nonsense manufactured by Peter Sztrok), the rest of us might be forgiven for thinking that for Mirengoff and others, interest in the games lawyers play has consumed any interest in courts performing the social function for which we have them.
What’s manifest is that the law in this country has entered a deeply decadent period and that the bar is what Fr. Paul Shaughnessy calls ‘sociologically corrupt’, which is to say incapable of reforming itself with its own resources.
interest in the games lawyers play
He does like to blog about basketball, doesn’t he? Baseball too, I think, although that might be Scott Johnson.
“Irregular” just means outside of the ordinary course of proceedings. You know, like a judge taking it upon himself to prosecute the case.