Attorneys for alleged liar Michael Sussmann on Friday took aim — yet again — at special prosecutor John Durham’s attempts to prosecute him for allegedly making a materially false statement to the FBI shortly before the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The document was yet another in a back-and-forth volley over whether the case against Sussmann should be tossed out of court. The Sussmann missive was technically a reply to a Durham motion which opposed Sussmann’s request to have the case dismissed — and that posture explains its opening lines.
The filing continued by alleging that Durham’s team “has not identified a single analogous precedent for [the] prosecution” of Sussmann.
In other words, per Sussmann’s review of American jurisprudence, Durham is on extremely thin ice.