{"id":3,"date":"2005-01-12T10:28:17","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T14:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/01\/12\/scotus-announces-federal-sentencing-gu"},"modified":"2005-01-12T10:28:17","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T14:28:17","slug":"scotus-announces-federal-sentencing-guidelines-are-guidelines-not-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/01\/12\/scotus-announces-federal-sentencing-guidelines-are-guidelines-not-r\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS announces Federal Sentencing Guidelines are Guidelines, Not Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a524'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2005\/01\/12\/politics\/12cnd-scot.html?hp&amp;ex=1105592400&amp;en=34b50d361c504626&amp;ei=5094&amp;partner=homepage\">This news<\/a><br \/>\nis a few hours old and was predicted, but it makes me utter, &#8220;Wow,&#8221;<br \/>\nnonetheless.&nbsp; The more interesting tidbit was how the 5-4 decision<br \/>\nwas split:<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 40px;\">Justice Stevens delivered the controlling opinion today and was joined<br \/>\nby Justices Antonin Scalia, David H. Souter, Clarence Thomas and Ruth<br \/>\nBader Ginsburg. The dissenters were Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist<br \/>\nand Justices Sandra Day O&#8217;Connor, Anthony M. Kennedy and Stephen G.<br \/>\nBreyer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More analysis to follow if I find time to review the Booker Opinion.<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>Also, it sounds odd to my moderate\/slightly progressive ears that the<br \/>\n&#8220;Left&#8221; is trying to combat the &#8220;Right&#8221; by reappropriating its<br \/>\nterms.&nbsp; I know that Dubya made his move first with &#8220;Compassionate<br \/>\nConservatives,&#8221; but there&#8217;s something wrong with rebranding<br \/>\n&#8220;Communists&#8221; as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/0501\/cr.tp.john.shtml\">Left Libertarians<\/a>.&#8221;&nbsp; Orwellian &#8220;Newspeak&#8221; is coming from both sides.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This news is a few hours old and was predicted, but it makes me utter, &#8220;Wow,&#8221; nonetheless.&nbsp; The more interesting tidbit was how the 5-4 decision was split: Justice Stevens delivered the controlling opinion today and was joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, David H. Souter, Clarence Thomas and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The dissenters were Chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}