Petition of the day

Thepetition of the day is:

Issues:(1) Whether, as Justices Ginsburg and Thomas suggested last term, this court should conduct a fresh examination of the separate sovereigns exception to the double jeopardy clause,Puerto Rico v. Sanchez Valle(Ginsburg, J., concurring); and (2) whether, as this court has previously suggested, the separate sovereigns exception at least should be inapplicable when state and federal prosecutors have worked so closely together that they are in essential fact one entity,Bartkus v. Illinois.