Debating the future of federal sentencing

Last year, as the Supreme Court prepared to hear argument in Booker and Fanfan, Professor Stephanos Bibas and I had the pleasure of participating in Legal Affairs’ Debate Club to explore the question “Can the Court clean up its Blakely mess?“.  In my (biased) opinion, we plowed a lot of important ground in that debate, and the points made therein remain timely.

I am hopeful that, now with Professor Frank Bowman as my new debate partner, the Legal Affairs’ Debate Club will agin prove to be a fruitful environment for developing sentencing reform ideas.  Celebrating the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Booker (background here and here), our question for this week is simply “What is the future of federal sentencing?”.  I have my first entry up here at the Debate Club, and Frank will be chiming in soon.