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Interesting day on tap for SCOTUS

By Douglas A. Berman

SCOTUSblog effectively reports here on today's big doings at One First Street: One or more opinions are expected to be announced at 10 a.m. Today is also ?honest services fraud? day.  The Court will hear oral argument in two cases challenging that statute: 10 a.m. - Black v. United States (08-876), involving the application of the statute to private conduct.  Lyle Denniston previews the case here. 11 a.m. ? Weyhrauch v. United States (08-1196), involving the proof needed in a state official?s trial for violating the statute.  A number of folks are sensibly predicting that an opinion in the big campaign finance is likely to come from the Justices this morning.  Though there will surely be lots of (overwought) punditry concerning whatever the Supreme Court does on the campaign finance front, sentencing fans may want to think about whether whatever SCOTUS rules could impact how much crime-and-punishment election rhetoric we see in 2010 and beyond...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 08, 2009 (boomark / email).