SCOTUS still struggling: the wait for Booker and Fanfan continues

Yet again, no news on the Supreme Court sentencing front: the Court did not hand down its decision in Booker and Fanfan today.  Sorry for all the false alarms; I am as disappointed and surprised as anyone that the Court has completed now seven decisions before being able to speak to the state of federal sentencing.  I continue to speculate that the Court is really struggling with the second severability issue (some background here).   

According to the SCOTUSblog folks here and Howard Bashman here, the only other possible date for the decision this year is Monday, December 13.  And, as noted before, perhaps even a longer wait is in store for us.  Whenever the decision comes out, I trust it will be worth the wait.

In the meantime, there are lots of other state and federal sentencing stories to share and discuss (and now the mysterious Milbarge, the “Weird Al” Yankovic for the sentencing world, has more time to write more great Blakely and Booker songs).