Judiciary Releases Annual Report and Judicial Business 2020
Along with the rest
of America, the Judiciary confronted significant challenges in 2020, led by the
need to meet its constitutional obligations amid a deadly global pandemic.
Federal courts learned to keep operations going, despite restricted access to
courthouses, with a quickly evolving reliance on technology and the resilience
of a 30,000-strong workforce, according to the Annual Report of the
Director, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO), published on
Tuesday.
Judiciary Seeks New Judgeships, Reaffirms Need for Enhanced Security
The Judicial
Conference of the United States, the Judiciary’s policy-making body, today
addressed two of its most pressing issues – a proposal to add 79 new
judgeships for courts across the country and initiatives to improve both
personal and courthouse security. (This report recommends adding to 2 seats to the 9th Cir. and a bunch to each of California's four federal districts.)
And today's DJ has Justice Hoffstadt on the separation of powers doctrine in The unknowable weight of separateness.
And here's a published opinion in which a pro per inmate appellant win an appeal in which the respondent warden does not even file a brief. That can't happen too often.
In the most recent episode of the ALI podcast, Reasonably Speaking, "Challenges to the 2020 Election: the Solicitors' Perspective," three former U.S. Solicitors General discuss preparing as best they could for what they anticipated would be an attack on the election outcome. Moderated by ALI President David Levi, the panelists are the SG3 (as the Biden campaign called them): Delligner, Verrilli & Waxman.
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