Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center, working on criminal justice policy and understanding the impact of federal funding cuts. Hopefully building a better world for everyone, especially two little girls. Views my own, dad jokes and sci-fi takes welcome.
Ames Grawert
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Last month, the Supreme Court made it harder for federal courts to revise outdated, unnecessarily harsh prison sentences — overriding Sentencing Commission experts in the process.
We walk through the case and the implications for compassionate release here.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
when lucky jack aubrey has again outmaneuvered my heavier frigate with twice his weight of metal
While you wait, one of the year's most important decisions on criminal justice policy came down late last month. Read our analysis: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Great article explaining how centralizing power in the presidency does real damage to American society -- in this case, by threatening the future of scientific research.
ICYMI: My colleagues at the @brennancenter.org and I walked through the history of habeas corpus and why it matters today.
www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
Mark focuses on the likely consequences of a proposed OMB regulation. We recently looked at the same problem through the lens of arbitrary funding cuts. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons.
Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.
SCOTUS: Hunter v. U.S., Kagan, 8-1. "An agreement not to appeal a sentence is unenforceable when it would result in a miscarriage of justice—meaning, when it would leave in place the kind of egregious error that would bring the judicial system into disrepute." www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
4/4 Anyway, I've got more to say about this in the removals context in a forthcoming piece, but it is notable that the underlying UET logic has moved out of the removals context and into the entirety of policymaking.
