The Trump administration’s attempts to reduce Roger Stone’s sentence shows how easy it is to manipulate punishment in federal courts.
This week President Trump placed his thumb on the scales in the sentencing of his past associate Roger Stone Jr, who had been convicted of obstructing justice, lying to Congress and threatening a witness with bodily harm, last November. Toni Locy writes that Trump’s pressure, which led to the resignation of four prosecutors involved in the case, shows the […]