An Ethically Challenged Sentencing Commission Nominee
The President today nominated a full slate of attorneys and judges for the US Sentencing Commission. The majority are Democrats, as is the President’s prerogative. I don’t know any of them, but I am familiar with the work on one of them, former US District Judge John Gleeson. Gleeson will be familiar to most readers as the amicus appointed by the district court in the infamous Michael Flynn prosecution, to argue in support of the court’s continuing with the prosecution notwithstanding the Justice Department’s wish to end the case on account of questionable (at best) prosecutorial behavior.
But there is another aspect of Gleeson’s behavior, undertaken while he was on the bench, that calls into question his ethical fitness. I wrote about this before, and regrettably, it is newly relevant today.