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<\/picture><\/a><\/p>\nAccording to\u00a0AP<\/em>, Berman Jackson ordered the parties to provide her\u00a0a copy of Trump’s executive order commuting Stone’s sentence<\/strong>, as well as clarity for\u00a0the scope of the clemency<\/strong>\u00a0– including whether Stone’s two-year supervised release is covered by the decision.<\/p>\n The president told reporters on Monday that\u00a0he was getting \u201crave reviews\u201d for his action on Stone<\/strong>\u00a0and restated his position that the Russia investigation \u201cshould have never taken place.\u201d<\/p>\n Democrats lambasted Trump\u2019s decision<\/strong>\u00a0as having undermined the rule of law, and Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the only Republican to vote to convict the president during his impeachment trial, called the clemency decision \u201cunprecedented, historic corruption.\u201d Mueller himself defended the Stone prosecution in a Washington Post opinion piece in which he said Stone \u201cremains a convicted felon, and rightly so.\u201d<\/p>\n Although presidents have broad authority to commute prison sentences and issue pardons, the brief order from Jackson \u2014 who presided over Stone\u2019s trial last year \u2014 made clear that the judge still is seeking information and clarity about the clemency, including the actual executive order from the White House. -AP (via WTOP<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The order was entered into the docket several hours later.<\/p>\n