Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) on Monday slammed the chief judge of a Texas district court, accusing the judge of choosing to “ignore” recent guidance by the Judicial Conference to address a strategy called “judge shopping.”
“The Northern District of Texas has decided to keep allowing the odious practice of judge shopping,” Schumer said Monday, aiming his complaints at Chief Judge David Godbey of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Schumer claimed such practices have been “abused by right-wing activists,” despite both right-leaning and left-leaning litigants engaging in the strategy, which can result in having a case placed before a preferred judge.
The Northern District of Texas has decided to keep allowing the odious practice of judge shopping.
Judge shopping has been abused by right-wing activists to subvert the will of the people.
The Senate will consider legislative options to put
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