The New York City Bar Association on Monday, in an amicus curiae brief lodged in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, argued strenuously against Michael Flynn’s recent appellate petition aimed at forcing a federal trial judge to dismiss long-standing criminal charges against him before the judge would have a chance to review prosecutors’ surprise decision to drop the charges.

The petition to the appeals court by Flynn, a former national security adviser and a close associate of President Donald Trump, was made in the days after U.S. Attorney General William Barr on May 7 abruptly announced that the Justice Department was dropping false-statement criminal charges against Flynn, despite Flynn having pleaded guilty to those charges twice, including in 2017 for the first time.

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