{"id":1949103,"date":"2023-06-16T12:22:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-news-ketanji-brown-jackson-authors-majority-opinion-on-sentencing-case\/"},"modified":"2023-06-16T12:23:22","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T16:23:22","slug":"supreme-court-news-ketanji-brown-jackson-authors-majority-opinion-on-sentencing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-news-ketanji-brown-jackson-authors-majority-opinion-on-sentencing-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court update: Ketanji Brown Jackson writes majority opinion for sentencing case."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsupreme-court-news-ketanji-brown-jackson-authors-majority-opinion-on-sentencing-case%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1949103&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson: Judges Can Show Leniency in Sentencing for Firearm Crimes<\/h2>\n<p>In a groundbreaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-amy-coney-barrett-delivers-first-opinion\/\" title=\"Justice Amy Coney Barrett Delivers First Opinion\">unanimous opinion<\/a> authored by Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, it has been determined that judges have the power to be more lenient in the sentencing process for certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabriella-hoffman-new-ca-gun-control-bill-already-displacing-youth-from-shooting-sports-hunting\/\" title=\"Gabriella Hoffman: New CA Gun Control Bill Already Displacing Youth from Shooting Sports, Hunting\">crimes involving firearms<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In the unanimous opinion in Lora v. United States, the justices clarified that a ban on concurrent sentences in one section of the criminal code for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-news-ketanji-brown-jackson-authors-majority-opinion-on-sentencing-case\/\" title=\"Supreme Court update: Ketanji Brown Jackson writes majority opinion for sentencing case.\">drug-related gun crimes<\/a> does not dictate the sentence for a conviction under another section of the law.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Justice Jackson, a former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-judiciary-committee-deadlocks-ketanji-brown-jackson-advances-to-senate-confirmation-vote\/\" title=\"After Judiciary Committee Deadlocks, Ketanji Brown Jackson Advances To Senate Confirmation Vote\">federal trial court judge<\/a> and the first former public defender to serve on the high court, emphasized that while Congress could have designed the penalty scheme differently, they chose not to, and therefore it is the court&#8217;s duty to implement the design chosen by Congress.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Congress could certainly have designed the penalty scheme at issue here differently,&#8221;<\/strong> she wrote. <strong>&#8220;But Congress did not do any of these things. And we must implement the design Congress chose.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson&#8217;s unanimous opinion allows judges to show leniency in sentencing for specific firearm-related offenses. In the case of Lora v. 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