The federal judge overseeing the case versus previous nationwide security advisor Michael Flynn is considering holding him in criminal contempt for perjury and has actually designated a previous judge to argue against the Trump administration’s effort to drop the case against him.
In an order on Wednesday night, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan exercised his “intrinsic authority” to select previous judge John Gleeson to present arguments in opposition to the Justice Department’s movement to dismiss the case against the former Trump administration authorities. Gleeson co-authored a Washington Post op-ed titled “The Flynn Case Isn’t Over Up Until the Judge States It’s O