Sentence examples for commutation power from inspiring English sources

"There is nothing historically unusual about the commutation power," Mr. Cuomo said.

Congress, for its part, may be talking a good game on criminal justice reforms, but there are still a large group of fire-breathing Republicans who are upset President Obama used his commutation power to "continue this Administration's plainly unconstitutional practice of picking and choosing which laws to enforce and which to change".

"The president's pardon and commutation power is absolute," said Stephen Presser, the emeritus law professor at Northwestern University.

Just because Obama has commutation power "does not mean that [Trump] wouldn't be able to have the Justice Department find something else to go after Manning for," said Brian Kant, a law professor at Michigan University.

Even pardon and commutation powers are often subject to more procedural openness and limitations.

Block said Monday he was impressed that Brown signed AB 648 despite the restrictions it puts on his commutation powers.

The multi-stage cooperation mode will lead to a long delay time of the backup protection, easily resulting in commutation failure in power grid at receiving side, which is harmful to the security of AC/DC hybrid power grid.

Studies of the commutation behavior of power stages, different pulse width modulation (PWM) schemes and single-phase-to-earth fault detection are executed.

Due to the commutation failure, the power transfer interruption, dc voltage drop and severe voltage fluctuation in the AC system could be occurred.

Raskin said that under the state Constitution, the legislature could not put any statutory limit on the governor's commutation and pardon powers.

"Commutation is an extraordinary power," Price said.