Court Imbalance Restructure that modifies the structure of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
The WIN of WINS
Be still my heart
Dims splody heads all over
An elegant solution...not a split of the Ninth but a Structure re-balance.
Who could possibly complain?
Washington, D.C. The House Judiciary Committee today approved by voice vote the Judiciary Reform, Organization and Operational Modernization (ROOM) Act of 2018, H.R. 6755. This bill, authored by Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Subcommittee Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), increases the number of federal district court judges by adopting the 2017 district court judgeship recommendations of the Judicial Conference in their entirety and includes several measures designed to improve the operation of the federal court system.
The U.S. federal court system is composed of one Supreme Court, 13 Courts of Appeals, 94 District Courts, and several other smaller courts. To operate the district court system, Congress has currently authorized 663 federal judgeships plus 10 temporary judgeships. Every other year, the Judicial Conference submits its recommendations to Congress on how many additional judgeships are needed in the various judicial districts based upon caseloads. The ROOM Act includes the current recommendation of the Judicial Conference to add 52 new permanent district court judgeships and to convert 8 of the 10 existing temporary district court judgeships to permanent status.
Additionally, the ROOM Act includes several measures to increase transparency in the federal court system. The legislation addresses the outdated technology associated with the Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) service run by the Judicial Branch. The ROOM Act also requires Internet video streaming of appellate arguments for circuit courts, requires same day Internet audio streaming for the Supreme Court, and requires public disclosure of the reasons for a recusal by a Justice of the Supreme Court.
Finally, the ROOM Act requires medical screening for federal judges in an effort to assist federal judges with recognizing potential medical issues.
(this last one is a kicker...I can think of a couple of Supremes that need a check up
And if liberalism were to be designated as a mental disorder...)
Creating 3 divisions is fine, but they need to add a large number of district and circuit judgeships, and let Trump nominate them. Keep the Senate or that would be a waste of time.