- A bipartisan pair of senators on Thursday proposed adding 77 federal district court seats across the country, matching the judiciary's recommendations — except for omitted appellate seats — and splitting the new judgeships between 2025 and 2029 to sidestep partisan concerns.
- The JUDGES Act proposal matches the Judicial Conference of the United States' recent recommendations for 77 new district judgeships in 13 states across the country, with more than half slated for California, Texas and Florida.
- A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday introduced a new comprehensive proposal to provide the 30,000 federal judiciary workers with the same rights and protections against discrimination, sexual harassment and other misconduct afforded to other government workers and those in the private sector.
- That letter came just two weeks after attorney Olivia Warren told a House Judiciary subcommittee that Ninth Circuit Judge Stephen Reinhardt, who died in 2018, subjected her and others to demeaning treatment and sexual harassment. That treatment worsened, Warren testified, after accusations of inappropriate sexual behavior against another prominent Ninth Circuit judge, Alex Kozinski, made headlines in late 2017.
And Judge Says Zoom Formal Attire Optional, But Clothing A Must reviews some famous incidents from over the past year.
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