Third Circuit Judge L. Felipe Restrepo was nominated today by President Trump to serve as a commissioner on the United States Sentencing Commission. The announcement is here, I first learned about from this post by Doug Berman on Sentencing Law and Policy. In my view, Judge Restrepo is a magnificent choice.

Three other USSC nominations were also announced: Eleventh Circuit Judge William Pryor to be the chair, and EDVA Judge Henry Hudson and Professor William Otis to be commissioners. Otis’s nomination, in particular, has already drawn sharp criticism from liberal commentators on Slate (“just the man to keep those prisons at maximum capacity”) and Splinter (“the last person you’d ever want to help oversee the criminal justice system”).

Good luck Judge Restrepo!