The Department of Justice two weeks earlier made the surprise move to abandon its own prosecution of Flynn.
A federal appeals court ordered the judge handling the criminal case of President Donald Trump's former national security advisor, Michael Flynn, to respond to a request by Flynn's lawyers to dismiss the case.
But the judge appointed a former federal judge to argue against the request, and submitted a schedule to allow third parties to submit arguments in the case. The order came two days after Flynn's lawyers asked the appeals court in Washington, D.C., to drop the case and assign any future court proceedings to another judge.
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