The president's "new" power.

[SoCalDem]

By commuting a sentence that had not yet begun..and by claiming that HE thought the punishment was "too severe", I'm betting that in his pea-brain he's already thinking about the opportunity to impose a MORE severe sentence if he deigns a punishment NOT severe enough..

If he can commute one sentence , why not just impose a different one in its place for a few choice "criminals" (i.e. political opponents)

Say he would never get away with it??

Watch him !

[MonkeyFunk]

1. Because the constitution gives

him the right to commute. It gives him no right to extend a sentence.

[SoCalDem]

3. He does not follow the constitution

To this admin it's just a quaint "guideline"

[BuyingThyme]

2. Moot point. See "enemy combatant."

[Cyrano]

4. Does this mean Ms. Hilton is going back to jail? I guess we'll always have Paris.