Can Donald Trump Rescind Chelsea Manning's Clemency?

Posted by notscj on Friday January 27, 2017 @12:04PM
from the usnews.com dept.

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2017-01-26/can-donald-trump-rescind-chelsea-mannings-clemency

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Re:Can Donald Trump Rescind Chelsea Manning's Clemency? by c1ph3rS0n on Friday January 27, 2017 @12:30PM (#13501149)

It would set a terrible president. In 4/8 years when Trump leaves office it would leave open for his decisions to be upended. If He don't respect Obama's clemency-revocation powers then why should the next PoTUS respect his?

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