Posted on 01/27/2017 8:30:14 AM PST by deplorableindc
President Donald Trump on Thursday denounced his predecessor’s decision to shorten the prison sentence of WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning. But he’s almost certainly unable to rescind the act of clemency that will see Manning released in May.
Pardons have been rescinded before and commutations have been modified, but experts appear to lean unanimously in Manning's favor, even though they are divided on the finer points of clemency-revocation powers.
"I can think of examples of where conditions were changed, but they're always toward leniency," professor and clemency expert P.S. Ruckman says about historical commutation changes.
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Probably not. But we don’t need USN&WR to tell us a damned thing.
The situation will self-regulate.
No he can’t. Like the power of a Presidential Pardon, the power to commute a sentence is also.
Unless they try this person on charges other than the original ones, she/it is free.
Same thing as with Obama letting Jonathan Pollard out. It’s a done deal.
There are bigger fish to fry...
Can we bring NEW charges against Manning?
For example, if someone has been injured or killed based on his leaked information since he plead, it’d be like a bullet fired in the air that finally landed. New crime. New charges.
He can probably stop his surgery.
He could place him in genpop for the remainder of his sentence. It would be like 100 years.
“There are bigger fish to fry...”
Lois Lerner
Hillary Clinton...
It is Bradley Manning. Both IT and BRADLEY. It or he. I’m tired of the perversion and sick accommodation made to people with serious mental issues. They need treatment, not facilitation and encouragement.
He can order a 7x24x365 FBI surveillance and if the little perv so much as looks at a kid sideways slap him in cuffs.
Right, Manning is small potatoes.
She/it can go live in France.
Thank you.
Ultimately he will go to his grave with an XY chromosome. He is, and forever, a male despite what all the weak, accommodating reporters say to maintain the illusion of this significantly mentally ill person.
Almost certainly not. If the commutation is in a legal form that can be accessed by courts, then it is a done deal. If it was just announced but the paperwork not delivered in final form, it could possibly be rescinded.
I doubt Obama’s people would have left a loose end.
No, but law enforcement can WATCH the guy very closely.
Only if Manning has not received it yet.
I wonder if there are other charges that can be filed against the traitor. Bradley Manning should be in prison for many more years, even if it takes another trial. The good side of his release is that we are no longer responsible for that psycho’s medical bills, which almost makes releasing him worthwhile.
And Koskinen!!
So-called “experts” have said the one thing a new president can’t undo — a prior president’s pardons.
Was he dishonorably discharged? If not, he is still under the control of the US Military and all kinds of bad things could be visited on him.
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