DOJ says sentencing recommendation for Stone is too extreme - will change guidelines today

[iluvtennis]

The DOJ is changing its sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone, according to a Senior DOJ official.
“The Department finds seven to nine years extreme, excessive and grossly disproportionate," the source said, adding the DOJ will clarify its position on sentencing later today

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Just Shameful. Such lawlessness.

[LexVegas]

1. Please tell me this guy broke a state law. Trump is going to pardon him. nt

[iluvtennis]

2. Comes hours just after trump said sentencing was miscarriage of justice

Link to tweet

[calguy]

3. trump is laying the groundwork to parden thr Stoner

Crime pays in this administration. The Senate gave him the green light last week.

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

4. Will Stone go back to bomb throwing

Once he is pardoned?

Silly question I suspect.

[Travel Hat]

5. This makes sense

If Trump gives him pardon, Stone can be brought into court or congressional committee and cannot take the 5th or found to lie or its back to prison. So its better to get his sentence reduced.

[captain queeg]

6. WTAF?

[Roland99]

7. AAAAAUUUUUGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Fuck these fascist assholes!!

[Takket]

8. "Oh really?" Said every black person doing 10 years for possession

[ScratchCat]

9. The House HAS to drag these folks in

The prosecutors can't go to court, argue for a sentence only to have the POTUS say they can't ask for that sentence. He has NO AUTHORITY. This is not how the DOJ works. There is no position to "clarify". The court shouldn't even accept a "clarification".

I'm just shaking my head. "The Department" is who issued the recommendation, FFS.

House Democrats messed up royally. I'm sorry. They did.

[ElementaryPenguin]

10. I hope the judge gives him 10 years!!

Ignoring these DOJ Barr gangsters all together!

[Leith]

11. Well of course they did

It's not like he's a Democrat.

Those thugs will excuse any crime in the world as long as one of them committed it.