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UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Simon LUNDY, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 08-3165.
    United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
    Submitted Feb. 18, 2009.
    
    Decided Feb. 20, 2009.
    Thomas A. Keith, Attorney, Office of the United States Attorney, Peoria, IL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
    Simon A. Lundy, Sr., Sandstone, MN, pro se.
    Before WILLIAM J. BAUER, Circuit Judge, KENNETH F. RIPPLE, Circuit Judge and MICHAEL S. KANNE, Circuit Judge.
    
      
       After examining the briefs and the records, we have concluded that oral argument is unnecessary. Thus, the appeal is submitted on the briefs and the record. See Fed. R.App. P. 34(a)(2).
    
   ORDER

Simon Lundy pleaded guilty to conspiring to distribute cocaine, see 21 U.S.C. § 846, and the district court sentenced him to 188 months’ imprisonment, the bottom of the guidelines range. His sentence reflected the district court’s finding that he was responsible for both powder and crack cocaine. After the sentencing guidelines were amended to reduce the offense levels for crack cocaine crimes, U.S.S.G.App. C, Supp.2007, amend. 706, Mr. Lundy — with the assistance of counsel — successfully petitioned the district court to resentence him to the bottom of the recalculated guidelines range, 151 months. See 18 U.S.C. § 3582(c)(2), U.S.S.G. § lB1.10(a).

Mr. Lundy now appeals his 151-month sentence, contending that his counsel’s performance in the § 3582 proceedings was deficient. He submits that his attorney should have challenged the constitutionality of the advisory guidelines system established by United States v. Booker; 543 U.S. 220, 125 S.Ct. 738, 160 L.Ed.2d 621 (2005), and relitigated the drug quantities and type. But we need not address that question because, as we have recently reaffirmed, there is no right to counsel in § 3582(c)(2) proceedings. United States v. Forman, 553 F.3d 585, 589-90 (7th Cir.2009); see also United States v. Tidwell, 178 F.3d 946, 949 (7th Cir.1999), cert denied, 528 U.S. 1023, 120 S.Ct. 535, 145 L.Ed.2d 415 (1999); United States v. Legree, 205 F.3d 724, 730 (4th Cir.2000); United States v. Townsend, 98 F.3d 510, 512-13 (9th Cir.1996); United States v. Whitebird, 55 F.3d 1007, 1011 (5th Cir.1995); United States v. Reddick, 53 F.3d 462, 465 (2d Cir.1995). And where there is no right to counsel, there is surely no right to effective counsel. See Anderson v. Cowan, 227 F.3d 893, 901 (7th Cir.2000) (citing Coleman v. Thompson, 501 U.S. 722, 752, 111 S.Ct. 2546, 115 L.Ed.2d 640 (1991)).

Accordingly, we AFFIRM Mr. Lundy’s sentence.