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President Obama nominates Judge Patti Saris to take over as Chair of USSC

By Douglas A. Berman

As detailed in this press release from the White House, yesterday "President Obama nominated Judge Patti B. Saris as Commissioner and Chair of the United States Sentencing Commission and Dabney Langhorne Friedrich as Commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission." I had heard rumors that Judge Saris, who has served since 1994 on the District Court for the District of Massachusetts, would be taking over the Chair position from outgoing Chair Judge William Sessions.  And the reappointment of Commissioner Dabney Friedrich, who was first appointed to the USSC by President Bush and was counsel to Senator Orrin Hatch back when he was chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, is likely part of an overall plan to help ensure that these nominations do not face any confirmation problems...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on April 29, 2010 (boomark / email).