The opinion, hosted at CNN initially, basically concludes that Flynn and the DoJ attempted to short-circuit a legitimate process of inquiry into the DoJ’s dismissal motion. Mandamus cannot take the place of an appeal, the court wrote in its majority opinion, and in this case the appellants didn’t even wait to see if an appeal would be necessary . . .
Sundance at CTH is pissed, DC Circuit Denies Flynn Writ of Mandamus Sends Case Back to Judge Sullivan for Final Disposition…#Flynn Appeals Court 8-2 against immediate dismissal + sends case back to Judge Sullivan. Key quotes: “Petitioner has not established that he has ‘no other adequate means to attain the relief he desires’... We also decline to mandate that the case be reassigned to a different..— Catherine Herridge (@CBS_Herridge) August 31, 2020
I have a standing rule never to write about current events in a state of anger; forgive me for violating my own standard… this is infuriating (albeit not unexpected). The two-tiered judicial process to target a ‘transparently innocent’ man continues.Ace, in red italic type, Democrat-Supermajority DC Court of Appeals Sends Flynn Case Back to Spectacularly Biased Sullivan
I think the court has signaled that Sullivan's show trial must end -- they ruled that Flynn hasn't made it "indisputable" that Sullivan is too biased to judge this case, but that's not a ringing endorsement. That sounds like a caution flag.WaPoo is pleased that Michael Flynn case does not have to be immediately dismissed, appeals court rules
And they ruled that Flynn still has other remedies for Sullivan's behavior beyond mandamus. Again, that's not blessing Sullivan's scheme to appoint his own prosecutor and conduct his own prosecution. It's claiming that Flynn has other remedies for this that he hasn't yet exhausted. (Exhausting all other remedies is a common requirement when seeking an interlocutory (while the case is still be decided) injunction.)
But will Sullivan heed those warnings, or will this ignorant incompetent miss them?
And what if he does miss them? This court has now announced itself as nothing more than a Democrat Star Chamber. Will they rebuke Sullivan after working so hard to spare him even a mild rebuke?
And by the way: Remember the NeverTrumpers (who are liberal Democrat partisans, straight up, no asterisk) are always dismissing your concerns about partisan judges as "But Muh Judges."
Trump and his supporters have rallied behind Barr’s intervention and Flynn’s effort to undo his guilty plea. Supporters say Flynn never should have been interviewed by the FBI. But scores of former and current Justice Department employees say the saga is a troubling example of the department bending to political pressure and the president’s interests.In high-profile political cases, “the party affiliation of the President who appoints a judge becomes an explanation for the judge’s real reason for the disposition, and the legal reasoning employed is seen as a cover for the exercise of raw political power,” he wrote. “No doubt there will be some who will describe the court’s decision today in such terms, but they would be mistaken.”So was never-Trumper Patterico, Court of Appeals Decisively Overturns Silly Panel Decision in Flynn Case, 8-2
The lesson here is that this was not a hard case. Whether to dismiss the case is a tough call. Conventional wisdom says Judge Sullivan won’t deny the Government’s motion, and I agree he probably won’t, though I think there’s a decent argument he should. But no matter what you think about the merits, this was never a valid case for mandamus. Never! Only partisans and people who had totally lost their perspective (there’s almost complete overlap there, by the way) thought that the dishonest panel decision made any sense. It never did, and today the rule of law was restored for a brief moment. Hats off to the en banc panel.Sundance has Sindey Powell on what comes next, Lou Dobbs Interviews Sidney Powell: “We’ll keep it going until they get it right”…
And now, back to Ratcliffe. J.E. Dyer at Da Lid, Democrats Furious As DNI Moves To Block Disinformation Efforts Around Election Security Intelligence. At Newsmax, Ric Grenell Explains Watch Out Schiff, It's All on Paper Now.
Matt Margolis at PJ Media, GET READY: More Spygate Docs Will Be Declassified Soon, Says DNI John Ratcliffe
Meanwhile at NewsThud, Paul Goldberg catches Schiff Mobilizing Intel Committee To Oppose Trump’s Efforts To Restore Order In The USA. Why is he working in Trump's favor.
Nunes told Breitbart News on Sirius XM 125:And from Stacy McCain, The Shark Has Been Infinitely Jumped: Russians Controlling Black Lives Matter?
“It hasn’t gotten too much coverage yet. They’re running an investigation from the Intelligence Committee, which has become the impeachment committee, on the situation that happened up in Seattle and Portland. But guess what? They’re running the investigation to see what federal assets did the Trump administration use and was it legal or not to keep the peace in the Pacific Northwest. So they are going to hold hearings, but they’re basically holding hearings to condemn the Trump administration for trying to save Americans’ lives and save Americans’ property and save us from all this looting and rioting and trying to keep under somewhat of some civil discourse here. So, they’re having hearings alright, but for the opposite reason.”
“I’m Not Making This Up, You Know,” says my podcasting partner John Hoge, reacting to the latest madness from Adam Schiff:I believe that. The Russians have always been ready and willing to stoke, (not "stroke", Joe, you idiot) racial flames in America to weaken us. But much like the infamous Facebook posts in the 2016 elections, their efforts are rounding error in the Democrat's efforts to inflame racial unrest for their own perceived political purposes.
SCHIFF: The peaceful protests, I think, are calling out, in a very important way, the murder of so many black men and women at the hands of police. And those protests are in the best tradition of the United States. But we need to make sure that they’re peaceful, as they largely have been, and that there aren’t these incidents of violence. In terms of what we can expect from the Russians or what the Russians are doing, the Russians, four years ago, Dana, exploited Black Lives Matter. They set up their own false flags online to try to divide people along racial lines.Also, the pyramids were built by aliens from outer space, and your brain waves are controlled by the CIA and the Bavarian Illuminati.
DANA BASH, CNN: Are they doing it now?
SCHIFF: And we have to — they are once again doing their best in social media, in their overt media, and other means to grow these divisions again.
And I think that most pernicious, we got to — we have to worry about their aggravating these tensions in our cities. We also have to worry about the Russians pushing out the president’s false narratives about voting by mail. But, finally, on the protests, Dana, I want to underscore something that you were asking Senator Johnson about. And that is, the president is willfully fanning the flames of this violence.
While I would like to say that Shiff couldn’t possibly get any crazier, he has shown endless creativity exploring new frontiers of craziness.
John Solomon at JTN, U.S. intelligence won’t answer if it spies on American journalists "ODNI has rejected a FOIA request from Just the News seeking transparency on spy agency monitoring of journalists." Of course they spy on journalists. Why should they be exempt when we're not?
Did not Hillary recently as for the same thing and wasn't it granted?
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