Don't underestimate the swamp? Dismissal of Flynn case still subject to Judge Sullivan approval Yeah that guy https://lawandcrime.com/awkward/judge-quickly-backtracks-apologizes-after-floating-crazy-idea-michael-flynn-committed-treason/ I'm happy about the good news, but I have been disappointed enough with twists and turns of toxic swamp politics that I'm not counting out the possibility that Judge Sullivan could be pressured/blackmailed/extorted/ to withhold approval. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/doj-is-close-to-getting-michael-flynn-a-legal-outcome-that-is-far-better-than-a-trump-pardon/ The U.S. Department of Justice’s request to U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, a Bill Clinton appointee, to allow it to drop its case against Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn contains a rather unique but critical procedural request: the government is seeking to dismiss Flynn’s case with prejudice. That means the government is asking the judge to toss the case in a manner that will not allow it to be brought again in the future — perhaps, hypothetically, by another administration (should Democrats take control in the 2020 election). The procedure contemplated may result in a treatment of Flynn that is better than a pardon from President Donald Trump himself. A request for a dismissal with prejudice is rare according to former federal prosecutor Gene Rossi, now an attorney in private practice. Rossi appears regularly as a legal analyst on the Law&Crime Network. Normally, Rossi says, federal prosecutors request to dismiss cases without prejudice. Cases dismissed without prejudice allow the government to again file charges against an individual some time down the road, so long as the statute of limitations has not expired. In the Flynn case, the statute of limitations for lying to government officials is five years, which could, hypothetically, give a subsequent administration the chance to re-file the charges. This Department of Justice is asking, legally, to prevent that possibility (though it is admittedly a guess as to whether the fear of an election upheaval is the motivating factor). Procedurally, the move is tricky. The DOJ is asking Judge Sullivan to dismiss the Flynn case under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 48(a). That rule allows a case to be dismissed “by the government,” but only “with leave of [the] court” — that’s with the permission of the judge. EDIT:   (back in early 2018) Sydney Powell stated confidence in Judge Sullivan. http://archive.is/U1A59 “Sidney Powell, a former federal prosecutor and author of “Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice,” writes that Flynn should withdraw his guilty plea and suggests that Sullivan, as the country’s premier jurist experienced in the abuses of our Department of Justice, . . . is the best person to confront the egregious government misconduct that has led to and been perpetrated by the Mueller-Weissmann ‘investigation’ and to right the injustices that have arisen from it.” In December 2019 Judge Sullivan was an asshat https://www.independentsentinel.com/sad-conclusion-to-flynn-case-judge-takes-the-hardline-falsely-berates-his-attorney/