Was Justice Kennedy Criticizing Obama Policy?
The dialogue between the Supreme Court and the Obama administration continues. During oral argument Tuesday in Dillon v. United States, Justice Anthony Kennedy pursued a line of questions that would be hard to interpret as other than critical of Obama administration policy on commutations and pardons. The case asks whether judges can reduce the prison terms of defendants by more than what the Sentencing Commission called for when it reduced the sentences for certain crack cocaine offenders in 2007.
