Pelosi Plans Measure to Limit Pardons Following Roger Stone Commutation

Pelosi Plans Measure to Limit Pardons Following Roger Stone Commutation
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) speaks at her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 26, 2020. Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) suggested that the House may introduce a bill to limit presidential pardon power following President Donald Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of his longtime associate and former adviser Roger Stone.

Pelosi, along with many of her Democrat colleagues, excoriated the president for providing clemency for Stone, who had been scheduled to report to prison on July 14. She called the decision “an act of staggering corruption,” while vowing Congress would take steps to prevent similar actions in the future.