A former judge appointed to argue against the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) extraordinary decision to drop charges against Michael Flynn urged a federal judge not to let the Trump administration withdraw its case and accused the former national security adviser of perjury.
In an 82-page filing submitted Wednesday, John Gleeson, the former judge acting as an outside counsel, accused the DOJ of “gross abuse of prosecutorial power” in its handling of the case against President Trump‘s former adviser.
“The Government’s ostensible grounds for seeking dismissal are conclusively disproven by its own briefs filed earlier in this very proceeding,” Gleeson wrote. “They contradict and ignore this Court’s prior orders, which constitute law of the case. They are riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact. And they depart from positions that the Government has taken in other cases.” Continue reading.
When Attorney General William Barr was confirmed by the U.S. Senate earlier this year, his supporters noted he had previously held that position under President George H.W. Bush in the early 1990s and insisted that he would conduct himself like a traditional Republican rather than a Trump loyalist. But Barr has turned out to be very much a Trump loyalist, and an