Conference Acts to Promote Random Case Assignment

All I can say is:

ABOUT ■■■■■■■ TIME.

This should make it a lot harder for litigants of either political stripe to shop a case to a preferred Judge.

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That’s good IMO…but I can’t help wondering why now? 30 years later.

There has been a lot of pressure by Congress lately for the Judicial Conference to do this.

Chief Justice Roberts in his 2021 end of year report also proposed doing this, but like any bureaucracy, it takes the Judicial Conference several years to move its wheels.

30 years when it was first purposed?

“Since 1995, the Judicial Conference has strongly supported the random assignment of cases and the notion that all district judges remain generalists,” said Judge Robert J. Conrad, Jr., secretary of the Conference. “The random case-assignment policy deters judge-shopping and the assignment of cases based on the perceived merits or abilities of a particular judge. It promotes the impartiality of proceedings and bolsters public confidence in the federal Judiciary.”

As I said, the wheels turn extremely slowly. I think it was the recent Congressional pressure that finally forced their hand.

Maybe…or now they have ulterior motives.

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…and it applies to Trump and everyone else except Jack Smith, libs and Democrats. They get to choose DC, NYC and Fulton County and that’s how our two-tier system works but remember…it doesn’t go into effect unless Trump is elected.

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Everything is a conspiracy against Trump.

:roll_eyes:

just ask David Dennison and John Barron

LOL, they are always my go to sources to get the real skinny on Trump.

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No man just where the FBI purposefully alters emails to mean the opposite of what was actually written so that they can dupe FISA court judges for FISA warrants. Then again the FBI can use dossiers paid for by Hillary and the DNC that they know is a lie but again use it to get a FISA warrant. If that doesn’t work, they’ll motivate a Russian collusion narrative to then get an investigation started where the scope is altered to outside of that and include “anything they find”. If that doesn’t work, impeachment 1, impeachment 2. Then if they don’t work they’ll start bull feces investigations in Democrat strongholds even if the AG is corrupt and uses the money for personal travel and such or how about another campaign on weaponizing the system to go after Trump using a corrupt judge. If that doesn’t work, then it’s a DC jury where 95% of the jury pool was against Trump. Then if that doesn’t work…

First of all, much of the abuse doesn’t involve Trump.

Such as Alan Albright, though being only 1 of 1,000+ United States District Judges, being able to garner fully 1/4 of the total IP caseload of the United States in his courtroom.

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The important people already got theirs. :wink:

They don’t do anything without some sort of motive behind it.

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Bam…hammer meet nail.

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Ever. This is how Super Powers rule.

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BTW, Republican plaintiffs odds are still pretty ■■■■■■■ good in the Northern District of Texas, even if they can’t get Kacsmaryk.

12 authorized Judgeships.

1 vacant.
1 appointed by Clinton
4 appointed by G.W. Bush
6 appointed by Trump

Additionally 5 active senior judges, including 3 Reagan, 1 G.H.W. Bush and 1 Clinton.

14 Republican appointees to 2 Democratic appointees.

Still damn good odds for anybody filing in the Northern District, so don’t lose heart. :smile: