APB for the USSC

As I discussed here, sentencing commissions should be playing an active role in re-constructing the post-Blakely world. But now, nearly a full two weeks since Blakely was decided, the U.S. Sentencing Commission seems to be the only institution not involved in the dynamic on-going sentencing reform conversation. We’ve already heard plenty from judges, academics, DOJ, line prosecutors and defense attorneys, and now Congress is working on “a Blakely fix.”. But not we’ve not heard a peep — either officially or uniffocially — from the USSC.

In my view, the USSC should not merely be involved in the post-Blakely conversation, the USSC should be leading it.