Despite their cries of 'I'm rubber, you're glue,' it is President Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr who are violating the separation of powers in the case against Michael Flynn.
for Sullivan to seek outside counsel on how to understand such a peculiar move from Barr.
From a separation of powers perspective, there is nothing untoward here. The executive prosecuted its case and won a guilty plea from the defendant. The judiciary must now exercise its independent judgment about how to sentence him. And judges may not bury their heads in the sand when the Department of Justice inexplicably unwinds a guilty plea it had painstakingly developed.
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Oval Office at the White House on May 7 in Washington, D.C. Trump talked about the announcement that the Department of Justice has dropped charges against his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI.But the story doesn't stop there.
And it doesn't take much to see why. The Department of Justice moved to dismiss the charges against Flynn on grounds that had in essence already been rejected by Sullivan when he made detailed findings on the validity of Flynn's guilty pleas. And it made that
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