The New York City Bar Association has slammed President Donald Trump’s commutation of Roger Stone’s 40-month prison sentence for witness tampering and lying to investigators during a probe of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia, saying the move breached Trump’s oath of office and violated the sanctity of jury proceedings.

In a letter to Trump, City Bar leaders said Wednesday the act of clemency, doled out to a longtime ally just before Stone was set to report to prison, amounted to a claim that the president was “ beyond the reach of the law” he swore to uphold.

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