federal judiciary
Budget Plan for Judiciary Could ‘Stop the Bleeding’
January 14, 2014
Congress is planning to give some relief to the federal judiciary after last year's budget cuts. A bipartisan appropriations bill released Monday night would provide the federal courts an increase of $316 million in discretionary spending—or 5 percent above current funding—for the 2014 fiscal year, according to a summary of the 1,582-page bill from the Senate Appropriations Committee. That would almost erase the $350 million in budget cuts to the judiciary in March as part of sequestration,...
January 14, 2014
Congress is planning to give some relief to the federal judiciary after last year's budget cuts. A bipartisan appropriations bill released Monday night would provide the federal courts an increase of $316 million in discretionary spending—or 5 percent above current funding—for the 2014 fiscal year, according to a summary of the 1,582-page bill from the Senate Appropriations Committee. That would almost erase the $350 million in budget cuts to the judiciary in March as part of sequestration,...
Roberts Warns of Impact of Budget Cuts on Judiciary
January 2, 2014
In his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on Tuesday warned that continued severe budget cuts would result in courtroom layoffs, trial delays and a “deepening threat to public safety at courts around the country.” Perpetuating “a hard freeze at the sequester level,” Roberts said, would extend an emergency $15-per-hour rate reduction for private lawyers representing indigent criminal defendants, and reduced security for court personnel. It would...
January 2, 2014
In his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. on Tuesday warned that continued severe budget cuts would result in courtroom layoffs, trial delays and a “deepening threat to public safety at courts around the country.” Perpetuating “a hard freeze at the sequester level,” Roberts said, would extend an emergency $15-per-hour rate reduction for private lawyers representing indigent criminal defendants, and reduced security for court personnel. It would...
Althouse: Chief Justice Roberts informs Congress that the federal judiciary is scraping by on a mere $7 billion a year
January 1, 2013
Althouse: Chief Justice Roberts informs Congress that the federal judiciary is scraping by on a mere $7 billion a year http://goo.gl/XK9ld
January 1, 2013
Althouse: Chief Justice Roberts informs Congress that the federal judiciary is scraping by on a mere $7 billion a year http://goo.gl/XK9ld
