https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/5okto9/obama_commutes_bulk_of_chelsea_mannings_sentence https://theintercept.com/2017/01/17/chelsea-manning-will-be-free-in-may/ President Obama has commuted the majority of the remaining prison sentence of Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years in military prison in 2013 for leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to Wikileaks. Manning will be released on May 17 from Fort Leavenworth Military Prison, where she would otherwise have been detained until 2045. Pardon Snowden, Drop Assange, etc et al.
A: Only the president of the United States can grant a commutation to a person convicted in a federal court. Congress and the federal courts do not have or share this power, cannot overturn or reverse a commutation, and cannot create rules limiting the president's use of the power.