The Senate has passed bipartisan legislation to create dozens of additional judgeships on federal district courts across the United States after a multi-decade dry spell when Congress added no new judges.
The measure, called the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act of 2024, cleared the upper chamber by unanimous consent on Aug. 1 and now heads to the House for consideration.
The Judges Act of 2024 seeks to create 63 permanent and three temporary judgeships on federal trial courts and, if signed into law by President Joe Biden, will mark the first time since the 1990s that Congress has created additional district court judgeships….