UPDATE: Judge in Michael Flynn case wants full appeals court to rehear dismissal of charges.
The judge in the Michael Flynn case, Emmet Sullivan, has asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to rehear the former national security adviser’s request for an order directing Sullivan to dismiss the case as the Justice Department has sought to do.and ordered Sullivan to dismiss the case last month. Now Sullivan is asking the full court to consider the issue. If the full court agrees to hear it, that would wipe out the panel’s order.
In his motion, Sullivan said the panel’s ruling “threatens to turn ordinary judicial process upside down. It is the district court’s job to consider and rule on pending motions, even ones that seem straightforward. This court, if called upon, reviews those decisions — it does not pre-empt them.”Flynn twice pleaded guilty to charges that he lied to FBI agents in January 2017 about his conversations with Russia's ambassador to the U.S.
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