Interesting federal sentencing guideline cases, including
one that allows judges to temper the crack/powder discrepancy (100 to 1), summarizing the issue (including reasons for the difference and how later it was deemed too much) fairly well. Each ruling was 7-2, Scalia supporting precedent, Souter
ideally wanting Congress to re-legislate given the new
Booker rule, and Thomas/Alito dissenting. The concurrences and dissents overall are telling -- discretion of this sort might be a good idea, but it's somewhat dubious statutory construction. Another
ruling was unanimous, but Ginsburg had a cute (and telling) concurrence.
