Senate Republican leaders are encouraging judges to essentially ignore a new policy that seeks to curb the practice of judge shopping.
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said in a letter Thursday that appeared to go to chief judges of US district courts across the country that the “Judicial Conference policy is not legislation” and that it’s up to Congress to decide how cases should be assigned in the lower courts, according to a copy obtained by Bloomberg Law.
“It is your job to manage the caseload of your ...