Several Attorneys General Demand Judge Drop Flynn Case: ‘Disrobes The Judiciary Of Its Cloak of Impartiality’

On May 7, the Department of Justice filed a motion to dismiss the case against former Trump national security adviser retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn — “one of the signature cases brought by special counsel Robert Mueller,” as The Associated Press put it — “after a considered review of all the facts and circumstances of this case, including newly discovered and disclosed information.” Among that newly disclosed information was evidence that the interview upon which the case was built was a “perjury trap,” as Attorney General William Barr has described it.

But the federal judge overseeing the case, Judge Emmet Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has refused to accept the Justice Department’s motion to dismiss the case, tabling the motion and instead opening the case up for amicus briefs from interested parties — a move blasted by Flynn’s legal team as a “travesty of justice.” Among those invited to file amicus briefs is the legal team that Flynn fired and who has since been accused by his new attorneys as advising him while in “the grip of intractable conflicts of interest.”