The people who sit by while Trump sets Roger Stone free (opinion)
CNNEditor’s Note: Jennifer Taub is a professor at Western New England University School of Law. But I didn’t.” Fineman later summed it all up: “And so, in the fullness of time – which is to say, about an hour later – the White House made official what Stone already knew: Trump was commuting Stone’s felony convictions for lying to Congress and tampering with witnesses.” What Stone said was an admission of an implicit quid-pro-quo bribery: an agreement to provide or receive something of value in exchange for an official act – here, Stone’s silence in exchange for Trump’s reprieve. Romney has shown courage, but the Framers expected more – more than just Romney, and more than Republican Sen. Pat Toomey, who joined Romney in criticizing Trump’s commutation of Stone’s sentence. The Framers anticipated that, faced with a President badly battering our constitutional guardrails, senators would see themselves not as Democrats or Republicans but as guards of our constitutional order, akin to the seven-justice Supreme Court majority that included Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, both of the justices Trump appointed to the bench, when it ruled on Trump’s tax returns last week. George Mason opposed giving a president that power precisely because “he may frequently pardon crimes which were advised by himself” – a prescient characterization of Trump’s public encouragement to Stone not to cooperate with investigators.
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Trump hints at Roger Stone pardon before he reports to prison
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Trump commutes Roger Stone’s sentence
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