Justice Department releases Stone clemency grant after inquiry from judge

[groundloop]

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Source: ABC News

The Justice Department on Monday made public the official order from President Donald Trump granting clemency to his longtime adviser and friend Roger Stone after a federal judge who oversaw Stone's criminal case raised questions about the the scope of the president's controversial action.

In an order Monday, D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson called for the Trump administration to provide her with a copy of Trump's executive order granting Stone clemency, and "whether it involves the sentence of incarceration alone or also the period of supervised release."

Jackson said her order followed questions that were specifically raised by the U.S. Probation Office, and ordered the government to submit the order by Tuesday -- when Stone was originally set to begin his 40-month prison sentence at a federal corrections institution in Alabama.

But Scott Anderson, a fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, argued that any attempts to impose limits on the president's constitutional pardon power could prove fruitless.






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[Thomas Hurt]

1. What was to stop the DOJ from ginning up a version that covers that issue.

[groundloop]

3. Absolutely nothing.

[liberalmuse]

2. This is fucking criminal.

[dweller]

4. was the ink still wet ?

✌🏼

[Xipe Totec]

5. Not dated? - NVM, 2nd page.

[groundloop]

9. Edited original post to include page 2. (OOPS)

[eppur_se_muova]

6. Why the Hell can't they use the modern spelling of "diverse" ?

"Divers" are people who jump into water.

[Rural_Progressive]

7. So that's not a typo

that's actually an arcane form of the word? Weird.

[eppur_se_muova]

8. Evidently, it's not actually the same word, to my surprise.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divers

[reACTIONary]

16. diverse means various. I think they are the same word. nt

[C_U_L8R]

10. The sharpie

Kinda caps it off with quite a kkkindergarten touch. What a doofus.

[NCjack]

11. If Bill Barr knows that Trump acting to protect himself, he is required

to charge him. If Jerry Nadler establishes this, the House should proceed to impeach Barr and Trump.

[aggiesal]

12. What's with the Sharpie pen? Does he not use anything other than a Sharpie? ...

Even the month and date are written with a Sharpie!

Also, when this pResidency is completed, there has to be changes made to the clemency and pardons by any President.

Any current sitting President should NOT be allowed to grant clemency or a pardon, to anyone guilty of committing a crime that benefits the current sitting President.
In this case; "Lie for me and I'll set you free!"

This basically opens the door to Presidential corruption until that door is closed
(i.e. change clemency and pardons).

[Maeve]

14. Little fingers need big crayons

[BlueIdaho]

15. He wants to make sure

His name is the biggest thing on the page. Yes, he is that fragile.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. I read today

that Barr advised against commuting the sentence.

Constitutional pardon power? Pardoning a co-conspirator is equivalent to pardoning oneself. Several articles made that point today.

And saying "look at me! I didn't talk, so pardon me!" is .............. obstruction? Quid pro quo?

In my neighborhood it'd probably be called a shakedown.

[Nitram]

17. Trump's "signature" resembles the pattern a seismograph creates during an earthquake.