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Wondering what a Justice Clinton might say about sentencing jurisprudence?

By Douglas A. Berman

Though I have not watched all of the Democratic convention, I think I am right to assert that Senator Hillary Clinton was the first headliner to mention the Supreme Court in her speech.  (Describing the state of the country, she said the Supreme Court is "in a right-wing headlock.")  That fact alone got me thinking again about the (very real?) possibility of a President Obama nominating Senator Clinton to fill an opening on the Supreme Court. Lots might be said about the political virtues (and vices?) or such a nomination and also about whether the Obama team might encourage pre-election political buzz about this possibility.  (A great retort to the failure to pick/vet Senator Clinton from the Obama team would be that we did not want to prevent her from being available for the first SCOTUS opening...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on August 27, 2008 (boomark / email).