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"We were too slow. Th' inimy got th' first cheat.”—Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley’s PhilosophyThe Bill Barr’s work is finally done. From CNN:Despite Flynn twice pleading guilty for lying to the FBI about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition, the Justice Department moved last month to dismiss the case against him. Sullivan did not immediately act, of the decision. If unchallenged with further appeals, the ruling exonerates Flynn after he and claimed innocence. The three-judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decided the trial judge, Sullivan, didn't have enough reason to question the DOJ's prosecution decisions in this case. They also said Sullivan having a third-party attorney weigh in on Flynn's case, the former judge John Gleeson, isn't needed anymore.They did it very neatly, and with complete confidence that the DC Court of Appeals was back there at shortstop. The judge who wrote the opinion, Neomi Rao, was appointed by this administration* to replace Brett Kavanaugh, when PJ and Squi’s pal got bumped up to The Show. (Her primary qualification was an apparent unfamiliarity with parts of the law.) And, in this decision, Rao has proven that she knows where her fundamental allegiance lies, and it’s not with the law, and she has put her court on the record as saying that a court may not question the government’s motives even if the government’s case is brought in bad faith. And Rao also established her Federalist Society Drama Queen credentials, as well. As Mark Joseph Stern pointed out, she actually reprimanded trial judge Emmet Sullivan for havin the audacity to “probe the government’s motives,” and she called Sullivan’s actions, “unprecedented intrusions into individual liberties.” Take a breath, Your Honor.It is probable that the case now go en banc to the full court of appeals since the whole thing is so transparently designed to get Flynn off the hook, eliminate the prosecutor’s leverage over him, and obviate the need for a presidential pardon. But, so far, up to and including today’s decision, it is a case study in what a second term for this administration* would look like, and what the federal judiciary is going to look like for the next 30-40 years.Charles P Pierce is the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston and has his three children.This content is imported from OpenWeb. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.&nbsp;Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowAdvertisement - Continue Reading Below

"We were too slow. Th' inimy got th' first cheat.”—Finley Peter Dunne, Mr. Dooley’s PhilosophyThe Bill Barr’s work is finally done. From CNN:Despite Flynn twice pleading guilty for lying to the FBI about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition, the Justice Department moved last month to dismiss the case against him. Sullivan did not immediately act, of the decision. If unchallenged with further appeals, the ruling exonerates Flynn after he and claimed innocence. The three-judge panel on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals decided the...

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Charles P. Pierce is a writer-at-large for Esquire and his work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the LA Times Magazine, the Nation, the Atlantic, Sports Illustrated and The Chicago Tribune, among others.

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