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A mostly civil morning at the Supreme Court, with a terror prosecution ruling on the side

By Douglas A. Berman

As super SCOTUS fans know, we are coming down to the wire with the current Supreme Court Term.  Though the Court has already resolved most of the top sentencing cases I flagged here at the start of the Term, criminal justice fans still have good reason to be eagerly awaiting rulings on honest services fraud and Second Amendment incorporation and a few other crime cases.  However, as SCOTUSblog is reporting this morning, today the Supreme Court dealt mostly with the civil side of its docket and thus we will have to wait until this Thursday or next Monday (or maybe even later) for some big criminal justice fun. Today did bring a criminal justice ruling concerning First Amendment issue in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. Here is how SCOTUSblog report the ruling: Chief Justice Roberts writes for the majority, affirming in part, reversing in part, and remanding Monday...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on June 21, 2010 (boomark / email).