The JUDGES Act would authorize 63 new permanent district court judgeships across the country over 10 years, including in Texas, California and other states where judges are dealing with particularly high caseloads.
June 13, 2024 at 05:35 PM
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The original version of this story was published on National Law Journal
The year was 1990. Home Alone was the top movie at the box office, and “Hold On” by Wilson Phillips was the number one song in the United States.
That was the year Congress last passed comprehensive legislation creating new judgeships, Sen. Lindsey Graham said at an Senate Judiciary Committee meeting Thursday, where the panel voted unanimously to advance toward the Senate floor a bipartisan bill aimed at adding seats to understaffed federal trial courts.
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The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room. With the Senate on recess, Chair Richard Durbin, D-Illinois, holds a hearing for Anthony Johnstone, then a nominee and now a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in October 2022. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
