Posted on 07/10/2020 4:24:43 PM PDT by John W
I disagree. There is plenty of time after the election for commutations and pardons.
The problem here is that Stone was going to have to start serving time in a few days, so the commutation needed to be now.
The sentence is still appealable despite being commuted. If Trump is not re-elected look for a complete pardon before January 20, 2021.
Exactly .... thanks.
The left is in a groupthink meeting.
It should have been a full pardon and it should have come months ago, Stone did not commit any crime.
LOL.. Now I wish I had Netflix! Darn.
Nonsense. His conviction was political, and Barr knows it. Hillary is free and Stone should be imprisoned? Are you nuts, Sir?
TRUMP is a guy with good character 🤙
Us 1999 people are much better than those 1998 Freepers :)
Pardon does not necessarily mean admission of guilt. There is no consensus as you implied. Your link reads:
Whether accepting a pardon is inherently an admission of guilt is still debated by many law historians.[20] According to Associate Justice Joseph McKenna, writing the majority opinion in the U.S. Supreme Court case Burdick v. United States, a pardon “carries an imputation of guilt; acceptance a confession of it.”[21] Associate Justice McKenna was referring to cases in the denial of a pardon. His comment was not intended for all pardons. Also, the federal courts have yet to make it clear how this logic applies to persons who are deceased (such as Henry Ossian Flipper, who was pardoned by Bill Clinton), those who are relieved from penalties as a result of general amnesties, and those whose punishments are relieved via a commutation of sentence (which cannot be rejected in any sense of the language).[22] Brian Kalt, a law professor at Michigan State University, notes that presidents sometimes (albeit rarely) grant a pardon to someone on the basis that the person is innocent. If a president thinks an individual is innocent and issues a pardon, then accepting a pardon would not mean the individual is guilty.
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So? Barr likes corrupt jury foredykes?
Judge Kwackson and her Jury foreman belong in jail, obstruction of justice with malice?
I’m not an attorney but I have watched a lot of Perry Mason.
How about a civil suit against that pair, conspiring to deprive Mr. Stone of his civil rights?
Amen. It’s amazing how he is supposedly cooking everything up in some witches brew in the White House basement. He’s using advisers and in this case certainly lawyers to help determine how to proceed.
Barr has no credibility until he starts prosecuting the FISA criminals.
I wish Trump would pick up that notion more forcefully. There’s a lot more out there he could expose and affect...
There’s a Constitutional argument that could be made in this case by the left to attempt a wresting of power from the Executive Branch.
I wouldn’t put it past any hardcore liberal to pass that opportunity up...
I'm arguing for perspective. Organizations go off the tracks when their focus is not on their mission, but on the organization.
The DOJ does not exist to provide income and a fulfilling work life for lefty activist lawyers. A corrupt prosecution is a corrupt prosecution, period...and if the DOJ does not recognize that, they're no longer part of the solution. They're corrupt.
Stone himself said on the Howie Carr show that he preferred a commutation of sentence instead of a pardon, because a pardon implies guilt.
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