Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that he would support a move by President Trump to commute the prison sentence of former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D), the Washington Post reports.
Said Durbin: “I think that the sentence imposed on Rod Blagojevich was definitely way too long. Fourteen years, it didn’t make sense.”
Durbin said he would not comment on Blagojevich’s culpability but said he believes the length of his sentence was “outrageous.”
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