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Federal Courts Want More Money From Congress for Security

17 septembre 2025 à 14:44
The judiciary’s leadership met in Washington, emphasized their budgetary needs and said that threats against judges remained a problem.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

New legislation proposed by House Republicans would provide $58 million in additional money for the U.S. Marshals Service and to protect the Supreme Court, as well as $30 million for lawmakers’ security. But it would not earmark new funds for the protection of lower-court judges.

Kavanaugh Acknowledges ‘Difficult Job’ of His Lower-Court Colleagues

4 septembre 2025 à 17:39
Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.

© Brad J. Vest for The New York Times

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh called trial-court judges “the front lines of American justice” while addressing the annual Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Memphis on Thursday.

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

3 septembre 2025 à 11:21
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

The unique culture of the judiciary, which can tilt toward tradition over innovation, has led it to move more slowly than a private company or other branches of government might.
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