The Justice Department has now officially reversed course, filing a new lighter sentencing recommendation for Roger Stone less than a day after its initial filing.
Time to disbar Barr.
Ignoring the verdict brought by a jury of his peers. There goes the GOPās harping on representing the will of the American public.
No recommendation at all? that is the upshot of this ārevisedā brief. This is unheard of. Shows clear political interference. The only reason why this would have occurred legitimately is if there was a breach of or failure to follow the sentencing guidelines.
Yet, the memo shows the guideline was the sentence earlier recommended. It was the exact sentence the law called for. DOJ is now asking for a downward revision. but donāt justify it, or explain why this would be appropriate. Let alone explain the change in position.
Judge Jackson needs to hold a hearing really fast and put everyone signing these pleadings under oath, find out if someone is perverting justice.
A fascist rot is consuming our democracy. The absolute corruption and criminality that leads the fascistgop no longer feels the need to disguise their murder of that quaint concept of 'equal justice under law".
They are daring Judge Jackson to respond with righteous fury and justice. Then Trump will have an excuse to pardon the poor, feeble old man. Itās performative fascist play against the judge, because whatever the sentence is, Trump will laugh and pardon, anyway. Because he can. After forcing the judge to look impotent. Full-on fascism.
This isnāt a prosecutorial sentencing memo at all. It does nothing but highlight potentially, highly dubious mitigating circumstances. The judge will have seen nothing like this before. An open-court judicial investigation is required.
Trump is messing with the wrong women. Jackson holds her temper well, she should just hold a hearing, make everyone testify under oath, get to the bottom of it. And the pardon power does not extend to contempt of courts, etc. Jackson should use this to destroy the careers of everyone who interfered in Justice before her court.
āThe government defers to the Court as to what specific sentence is appropriate under the facts and circumstances of this case,ā the document reads.
So, the proper sentence is one that follows the sentencing guidelines - 7 to 9 years. Just like DOJ filed for yesterday.
Just trying to get an āObama judgeā to order the sentence on her own so Trump has something else to rant about and use for a pardon excuse.
Something else is going on here. Trump didnāt need to wait for sentencing or even a verdict, could have pardoned him at any point in the process.
After last Wednesday, why he hasnāt been just issuing blanket pardons to his buddies like Flynn, Manafort and Stone is beyond me, as the Senate has explicitly told him heāll never be held accountable.