President Trump said on Monday that he plans to pardon someone “very, very important” on Tuesday, but would not go into details about who it is. The order, which indicated that one court may be planning to question the impartiality of a judge on another court, is the latest twist in the years-long legal saga. Then, in his own unusual move, District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan, who is the trial-level judge on the Flynn case, refused to immediately grant the motion to drop charges. He appointed an "amicus curie" -- Latin for "friend of the court" -- to argue against the DOJ motion. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPWhile pardons generally come at the end of a president’s term, Trump has used them – along with commutations of sentences – throughout his time in the White House.

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