Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson authored a unanimous opinion Friday that judges can be more lenient in the sentencing process for certain crimes involving firearms.

In the unanimous opinion in Lora v. United States, the justices said a ban on concurrent sentences in one section of the criminal code for drug-related gun crimes does not govern a sentence for a conviction under another section of the law.

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Jackson, a former federal trial court judge and the first former public defender to serve on the high court, said that Congress could have designed the penalty scheme at issue differently but because it didn't, the court "must implement the design Congress chose.”

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“Congress could certainly have designed the penalty scheme at issue here differently,” she wrote. “But Congress did not do any of these things. And we must implement the design Congress chose.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.