Fernandez v. United States · ¶123

Deploying its own concerns about habeas end-runs, the majority misses all this; it now drastically limits the availability of the compassionate-release tool Congress crafted. And it does so without adequately identifying any true confict with § 2255. The majority's atextual and unsupported limitation on a district court's sentencing discretion is an unnecessary rewriting of the statute Congress wrote and an unwarranted revision of the compassionate-release scheme Congress intended to establish.

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