Ginsburg sides with conservative justices in ruling over prison sentence

[Jose Garcia]

Source: The Hill

The Supreme Court on Monday found that a criminal defendant can be sentenced for violating his supervised release, even if the release expires while he is incarcerated ahead of facing new charges.

The justices, divided in the 5-4 decision, ruled against Jason Mont's argument that a district court shouldn't be able to charge him for violating his release because the term had expired at the time of the new sentencing.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sided with conservative Justices Clarence Thomas, John Roberts, Samuel Alito and Brett Kavanaugh in the majority. Justice Neil Gorsuch joined liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan in opposing the decision.

Mont had previously been convicted on felony drug and gun charges and served 84 months in prison before beginning a five-year supervised release due to end in March 2017.

Read more: https://thehill.com/regulation/446632-ginsburg-sides-with-conservative-justices-in-ruling-over-prison-sentence

[still_one]

1. Very interesting. I don't necessarily see this as a liberal verses conservative issue

[George II]

2. I don't either.

[DeminPennswoods]

3. Gorsuch has been a bit surprising

in that he has not sided with his conservative colleagues 100% of the time as I would have expected.

[Polybius]

4. Yet I think he's more conservative than Kavanaugh

Kavanaugh sided with Planned Parenthood in one of his first rulings. Gorsuch just has a libertarian streak. Kavanaugh is a Bush Republican.

[DeminPennswoods]

5. More correctly, Kavanaugh is a GOP political hack

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