DC Circuit Signals Split on Flynn Case Intervention

Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1, 2017. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A three-judge panel of the District of Columbia appeals court appeared split on whether to intervene in the case of former Trump adviser Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn.

Flynn and the Department of Justice (DOJ) are asking the appeals court for a writ of mandamus—an order to District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who has presided over the Flynn case—to accept DOJ’s motion to drop the case.