US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson demanded more information concerning President Trump's decision to commute the prison sentence of Roger Stone - a longtime ally who avoided a 40-months in prison sentence for making false statements to special counsel Robert Mueller's team during the Russia investigation.
According to AP, Berman Jackson ordered the parties to provide her a copy of Trump's executive order commuting Stone's sentence, as well as clarity for the scope of the clemency - including whether Stone's two-year supervised release is covered by the decision.
To answer Berman Jackson's question, Trump commuted "the entirety of the two-year term of supervised release with all its conditions."
The president told reporters on Monday that he was getting “rave reviews” for his action on Stone and restated his position that the Russia investigation “should have never taken place.”
Democrats lambasted Trump’s decision as having undermined the rule of law, and Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the only Republican to vote to convict the president during his impeachment trial, called the clemency decision “unprecedented, historic corruption.” Mueller himself defended the Stone prosecution in a Washington Post opinion piece in which he said Stone “remains a convicted felon, and rightly so.”
Although presidents have broad authority to commute prison sentences and issue pardons, the brief order from Jackson — who presided over Stone’s trial last year — made clear that the judge still is seeking information and clarity about the clemency, including the actual executive order from the White House. -AP (via WTOP)
The order was entered into the docket several hours later.
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5 comments:
Obama was a talented guy on the way he selected people. Make sure you “ put the right people on it” should be his slogan.
Wow.... never knew he had a talent. Guess he did though, enough to ruin this great nation. Lying scum he is.
Say what you will about Roger Stone but he was railroaded from the get go. He was targeted and affronted by an armed SWAT team in the middle of the night who broke his door down and cuffed him and perp walked him to jail. This was a process event (serving a warrant) and it required a 29 man armed assault team? Then, Berman Jackson throws the book at him? These loons show their butts at every turn and don't even have sense enough to somewhat disguise their TDS.
WOW. These judge's just can't follow the law. Any judge who does that should be taken off the bench immediately. If they don't follow the law. They shouldn't be a judge.
849 LOL this is too funny. Yes, Roger was arrested like so many other criminals are. We're sorry he did not get the millionaires usual treatment. He was convicted by a jury of his peers. This is exactly how the system is supposed to work, except when the guy he was lying for gets to pardon him.
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