In the New Year’s Eve Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. decried each political party’s blocking of judicial nominations because this has “created acute difficulties for some judicial districts” by burdening them with “extraordinary caseloads.”
Last-minute 2010 Senate confirmation of numerous lower court judges heartened the chief justice, but he warned that an “urgent need for the political branches to find a long-term solution to this recurring problem” remains.
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