(06-12-2020 12:39 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  

(06-12-2020 09:16 AM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(06-12-2020 08:57 AM)At Ease Wrote:  

LAW AND ORDER! vs. Rule of law

You really should look up Gleeson's past, dude.

Here is a starter course here, whack a mole.

First, he has already made very public statements on Flynn --- kind of disqualifies him at the start to act in the way that Sullivan tapped him for, but, we know Sullivan didnt tap him for that.

Not to mention that Sullivan is getting his ass spanked today at the Fed Circuit. It is fun listening to it. I can send you the live audio feed if you want.

Second, previously, in one case before him, he served as the advocate to higher authorities to get a sentence reduction for a convicted criminal. Actually advocated for the defendant. Then turned right around, and in the same case he acted as an advocate in, served as the actual sentencing judge.

Further, look at HSBC Bank USA, N.A., 863 F.3d 125, 136 (2d Cir. 2017).

There, as the trial judge, he did pretty much the same thing that Sullivan did by plopping himself into the middle of the propriety of a deferred prosecution agreement. Said he had all sorts of power to jump into the middle.

The Appellate Court there spanked him pretty hard for that.

If one bothers to look up his background -- he is an interventionist tool that many times simply makes up what he should do, even if it runs contrary to the written rules of evidence, procedure, or Judicial Canons for that matter.

You really should do a bit more than that surface crap like you do above. I would somewhat expect that from a Rice graduate.

So, how does a guy get away with that and still remain a judge? If you did equivalent misconduct in the private sector, you'd be canned quickly and probably blackballed in your industry as well.

Once a federal judge, the only ways out are death, resignation, retirement, or impeachment.

I can think of only 1 judge in the last 25 years who got spanked 'in the profession' -- The 5th Circuit ordered that Judge Sam Kent in Galveston had to have his docket 'restructured' and 'monitored'. He had 85 cases reassigned from his docket to others, and all of those cases had two specific attorneys on them.

If you ever want to get a rise from a Houston politician, one of those attorneys recently ran for mayor of Houston.

Of course, Kent was indicted 7 years later, and convicted. Only in prison was impeachment brought, but he resigned and the impeachment was dropped.

And in all honesty, Gleeson's first issue above is the most concerning -- his actions were absolutely violation of judicial ethics. In the second, he got simply got overrruled --the opinion is harsh though.