Yesterday, I wrote that the Judicial Conference's policy is dead-dead. Placing the final nail in the coffin was a cohort of progressive groups who wrote to Senator Dick Durbin, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
The letter accuses the Judicial Conference of backing down from their initial proposal to mandate the policy across the districts:
We are deeply concerned that, after announcing efforts to combat this practice, the Judicial Conference appears to have watered down its commitment to addressing judge shopping in response to attacks from Republican senators and their allies in their right-wing legal movement. . . Troublingly, the Judicial Conference appeared to bow down to this opposition just three days later by stressing it was merely providing optional guidance that courts could do with as they will.
