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Roger Stone judge orders DOJ to submit Trump’s commutation order

By Jerry Dunleavy
Published July 13, 2020 4:38pm ET
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Roger Stone judge orders DOJ to submit Trump’s commutation order
This courtroom sketch shows former campaign adviser for President Donald Trump, Roger Stone talking from the witness stand as prosecution attorney Jonathan Kravis, standing left, Stone's attorney Bruce Rogow, third from right, and Judge Amy Berman Jackson listen, during a court hearing at the U.S. District Courthouse in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 21, 2019. Berman Jackson issued a broad gag order forbidding Stone to discuss his criminal case with anyone and gave him a stinging reprimand over his posting of a photo of the judge with what appeared to be crosshairs of a gun. | Dana Verkouteren via AP

The judge who presided over Roger Stone’s criminal trial and sentencing ordered the Justice Department to submit President Trump’s executive order commuting the sentence of the longtime Trump associate.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee who handed down Stone’s 40-month sentence earlier this year following the GOP operative’s jury conviction in November, asked for more information about Trump’s grant of clemency, which the White House announced in a press release on Friday.

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