As detailed in this press release from earlier this week, “U.S. Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) [have] introduced the Sentencing Commission Improvements Act, legislation that would for the first time add an ex officio member with a public defender background to the U.S. Sentencing Commission.”  Here is a link to the short bill, and here is more from the press release: Currently, the Commission consists of seven members from both political parties appointed by the… Continue Reading New Senate bill to add defender <em>ex officio</em> position to US Sentencing Commission