US Sentencing Commission publishes “2025 Amendments in Brief”
The US Sentencing Commission has recently published on this USSC webpage five short new documents as part of its helpful “Amendment in Brief” series. As explained on that page, “‘Amendments In Brief’ are short summaries, usually one to two pages, of the Commission’s actions in a certain area of sentencing policy and the issue that prompted the amendment to the federal sentencing guidelines.” Here is a list and links to the 2025 items:
2025 Supervised Release Amendment
2025 Circuit Conflicts Amendment
As noted on the webpages, the USSC promulgated these amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines back in APril 2025, and they all “will take effect on November 1, 2025 absent Congressional action to the contrary.” Given that Congress has taken direct action regarding guideline amendments only once in 35 years of USSC guideline revisions, I do not think there is any basis to expect any congressional action in response to this year’s batch.