JUDGE SULLIVAN/MICHAEL FLYNN/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A U.S. judge on Tuesday [Sep. 29, 2020] began examining the Justice Department’s bid to dismiss the criminal case against Michael Flynn, the former Trump national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators.
The hearing before U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan comes after an appeals court last month affirmed his authority to scrutinize Attorney General William P. Barr’s controversial request to toss the prosecution of the highest-ranking Trump adviser charged in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s Russia investigation…
Trump and his allies have made the former three-star Army general’s cause a focus of efforts to discredit the criminal inquiry into whether individuals associated with Trump’s campaign cooperated with Russia’s illegal assistance.”
-Spencer S. Hsu and Ann E. Marimow, “Michael Flynn faces showdown before judge over Justice Dept. bid to drop prosecution,” washingtonpost.com, Sep. 29, 2020