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  • Rehnquist Nails Congress on Judge Limits

    01/01/2004 7:00:30 AM PST · by Tumbleweed_Connection · 20 replies · 264+ views
    APNews ^ | 1/1/04 | Jennifer Kerr
    Congress should have sought the judiciary's advice before limiting the ability of judges to impose lighter sentences than specified in federal guidelines, the nation's top judge says. "During the last year, it seems that the traditional interchange between the Congress and the Judiciary broke down when Congress enacted what is known as the Protect Act, making some rather dramatic changes to the laws governing the federal sentencing process," Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist wrote Thursday in his annual report on the state of the judiciary. The changes that Rehnquist objects to were tucked into an anti-crime bill passed by Congress...