Appeals Court Panel Orders End to Michael Flynn Case
The judge in the case of President Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, was ordered to immediately dismiss it. The full appeals court could review the matter.
By Charlie Savage
June 24, 2020, 10:29 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — A divided federal appeals court panel on Wednesday ordered an immediate end to the case against Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s former national security adviser — delivering a major victory to Mr. Flynn and to the Justice Department, which had sought to drop the case even though Mr. Flynn twice pleaded guilty.
In the ruling, two of three judges on a panel for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ordered the trial judge overseeing the matter, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, to immediately dismiss the case without further review. The full appeals court has the option of reviewing the matter.
The case is “about whether, after the government has explained why a prosecution is no longer in the public interest, the district judge may prolong the prosecution by appointing an amicus, encouraging public participation, and probing the government’s motives,” wrote Judge Neomi Rao, a former White House official whom Mr. Trump appointed to the appeals court last year.
She added: “On that, both the Constitution and cases are clear: He may not.”
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