Members of the Philadelphia City Council's Legislative Oversight Committee called out the city's court leadership for not showing up to a hearing on a recent study that the court's First Judicial District is a hotbed of racial tension and nepotism, implying that a price may be paid come budget time.

The committee met virtually over Microsoft Teams on Monday afternoon to discuss the findings of the equity study performed by the Center for Urban and Racial Equity (CURE) and released in July. That study concluded the FJD fostered "a culture of nepotism, mistrust and racial tensions that is constantly brewing—and occasionally bubbling to the surface."