[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 59 (Monday, April 8, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S2630-S2631]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          JUDICIAL CONFERENCE

  Mr. SCHUMER. Madam President, now on forum shopping, last month, I 
wrote a letter to the chief judge of the Northern District of Texas 
urging the district to apply new reforms adopted by the Judicial 
Conference to limit the practice of judge shopping. I was disappointed 
to learn that the chief judge and his court have decided to ignore the 
Judicial Conference's reforms and allow judge shopping to continue to 
run rampant in his district.
  The bottom line is this. It is very simple. Judge shopping jaundices 
the fairness of our entire legal system. No one, regardless of 
ideology, should tolerate when interest groups cherry-pick

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judges of their choice to get a favorable outcome.
  If courts like the Northern District of Texas refuse to adopt 
commonsense reforms to limit judge shopping, Congress should consider 
legislation to end this dangerous practice and restore trust in our 
Federal judiciary.

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