Manning Commuted By Obama, Free In May

[g2s at riseup.net (Razer)]

On 01/17/2017 03:33 PM, grarpamp wrote:
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html
> https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5okto9/obama_commutes_bulk_of_chelsea_mannings_sentence
> https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/chelsea-manning-will-be-free-in-may/
>
> President Obama has commuted the majority of the remaining prison
> sentence of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to
> 35 years in military prison in 2013 for leaking hundreds of thousands
> of documents to Wikileaks. Manning will be released on May 17 from
> Fort Leavenworth Military Prison, where she would otherwise have been
> detained until 2045.
>
> Pardon Snowden, Drop Assange, etc et al.


For a minute I had this worry...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=can+presidential+commutations+be+overturned

> A: Only the president of the United States can grant a commutation to
> a person convicted in a federal court. Congress and the federal courts
> do not have or share this power, cannot overturn or reverse a
> commutation, and cannot create rules limiting the president's use of
> the power.

http://famm.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/FAQ-Commutations-4.13.pdf

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