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In July 2020, Romney, along with [[Pat Toomey]], was one of two Republican U.S. Senators who condemned Trump's decision to commute the sentence of [[Roger Stone]], which Romney described as "Unprecedented, historic corruption: an American president commutes the sentence of a person convicted by a jury of lying to shield that very president."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/11/republicans-denounce-roger-stone-commutation-357259|title=Historic corruption': 2 Republican senators denounce Trump's commutation of Stone|first=Andrew|last= Desiderio|publisher=[[Politico]]|date=July 11, 2020|access-date=July 12, 2020}}</ref>
In September 2020, Romney said the Republicans' decision to [[Amy Coney Barrett Supreme Court nomination|nominate]] and confirm [[Amy Coney Barrett]] as an [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States]] before the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]] was fair: "the circumstance where a nominee of a president is from a different party than the Senate then, more often than not, the Senate does not confirm. So the [[Merrick Garland Supreme Court nomination|Garland decision]] was consistent with that. On the other hand, when there's a nominee of a party that is in the same party as the Senate, then typically they do confirm."<ref>{{cite news |title=How Republicans Quickly Lined Up to Confirm a Supreme Court Nominee |url=https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/how-republicans-quickly-lined-up-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-nominee/ |work=National Review |date=September 26, 2020 |access-date=September 27, 2020 |archive-date=September 29, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200929003211/https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/09/how-republicans-quickly-lined-up-to-confirm-a-supreme-court-nominee/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Sherman |first1=Jake |last2=Palmer |first2=Anna |last3=Ross |first3=Garrett |last4=Okun |first4=Eli |date=2020-09-22 |title=POLITICO Playbook PM: McConnell plows ahead |url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2020/09/22/mcconnell-plows-ahead-490404 |access-date=January 4, 2025 |website=Politico |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250104180254/https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook-pm/2020/09/22/mcconnell-plows-ahead-490404?__cf_chl_rt_tk=FWGQDm7IypOPla3ADoNxhZKPqJt_BK.c3RacFq.Tr5g-1736013774-1.0.1.1-iL3XMTUQiyxDljU7xyRcE66s6qt_1WXxNP84yPZ07Pc |archive-date=January 4, 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref>
In June 2024, Romney proposed a framework to mitigate the [[existential risk from artificial general intelligence]] along with Senators [[Jack Reed (Rhode Island politician)|Jack Reed]], [[Jerry Moran]], and [[Angus King]]. Romney said he would like to see regulation that "would restrict the types of actions that could lead to existential, or health, or other serious consequences".<ref>{{Cite web |last=mshaw |date=2024-06-11 |title=Downplaying AI's existential risks is a fatal error, some say |url=https://rollcall.com/2024/06/11/downplaying-ais-existential-risks-is-a-fatal-error-some-say/ |access-date=June 23, 2024 |website=Roll Call |language=en-US}}</ref>
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