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The pitched legal battle over the fate of President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn raises unsettled, novel questions about what happens when a judge refuses to go along when prosecutors no longer want to pursue their case. [read post]
The US Department of Justice’s bid to dismiss the charges against Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor, appears to be a “corrupt and politically motivated favor,” according to a reply brief filed Friday by former federal judge John Gleeson. [read post]
27 Dec 2017, 12:18 pm by John Floyd
Michael Flynn’s life can at least be salvaged to great measure by rejecting any pardon extended by President Donald Trump and continuing his cooperation with federal and state authorities into the criminal wrongdoing that quite possibly is the underpinnings of the Trump presidency. [read post]
25 Nov 2016, 9:57 am by Tom Smith
The first time I met Michael Flynn, whom President-elect Donald Trump tapped last week to be his national-security adviser, he was wearing the Army’s weekend uniform—a baggy polo shirt and khaki pants—and swinging his Blackberry around like a cowboy would his revolver. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 8:19 am by Jack Goldsmith
The Washington Post reported on Monday that it was “unclear what the White House counsel, Donald McGahn, did” when Acting Attorney General Sally Yates told him last month that Michael Flynn had misled senior administration officials about his phone conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. [read post]
3 Jul 2018, 2:01 pm by Lindsay Offutt
Flynn, the former national security advisor to Donald Trump, pled guilty in December to charges concerning two statements he made. [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 12:38 pm by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court in Washington declined Monday to order the dismissal of the Michael Flynn prosecution, permitting a judge to scrutinize the Justice Department’s request to dismiss its case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser.The decision keeps the matter at least temporarily alive and rebuffs efforts by both Flynn’s lawyers and the Justice Department to force the prosecution to be dropped… [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 4:36 am by Tom Smith
Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s embattled national security adviser, resigned late Monday after coming under fire for privately discussing U.S. sanctions against Russia before the presidential inauguration. [read post]
13 Jul 2016, 6:42 pm by Family Law
From the Los Angeles Times: After meeting with Presidential candidate, Donald Trump, Michael Flynn is rumored to have been vetted for the Vice Presidency. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 2:32 pm by Timothy Edgar
The election of Donald Trump as president prompted a lively debate about whether the resulting alarm about civil liberties was justified. [read post]
15 Feb 2017, 5:47 am by Benjamin Wittes
An appeals court puts the brakes on Donald Trump’s immigrant and refugee ban. [read post]
30 Jul 2020, 10:23 pm by The Washington Post
WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court in Washington will take a second look at a judge’s effort to scrutinize the Justice Department’s decision to drop its case against President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 12:36 pm by Susan Hennessey, Quinta Jurecic
Michael Flynn, of course, is a U.S. person (as is Donald Trump for the purposes of assessing his allegations regarding President Obama against FISA standards). [read post]
5 Dec 2018, 11:46 am by Sabrina I. Pacifici
Lawfare: “The special counsel’s office has filed its sentencing memo in the case of Michael Flynn. [read post]
6 Dec 2017, 10:55 am by Tom Smith
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was just 11 minutes into his presidency when his choice for national security adviser, Michael Flynn, texted a former business partner to say an ambitious U.S. collaboration with Russia to build nuclear reactors in the Middle East was "good to go," according to a new whistleblower account. [read post]
10 Nov 2017, 1:44 pm by Susan Hennessey, Benjamin Wittes
It’s a very big story, one that casts the larger Flynn investigation in an altogether different, and more menacing, light, and one that also potentially casts the obstruction of justice investigation of President Donald Trump in a different light. [read post]
14 May 2020, 7:47 am by Angela Mauroni
Judge Emmet Sullivan of the US District Court for the District of Columbia entered an order Tuesday allowing “amicus curiae,” of “friend of the court” briefs on how to handle the Department of Justice (DOJ) decision to drop its case against Michael Flynn, a former national security advisor to President Donald Trump. [read post]
19 May 2020, 2:33 pm by John Floyd
”   In other words, the FBI wanted to determine if Flynn was a Russian asset as part of the agency’s larger Crossfire Hurricane “investigation into the presidential campaign of Donald J. [read post]