April 2, 2023 Chair Dick Durbin Senate Committee on the

Judge shopping has increasingly become a favorite tactic of the right-wing legal movement seeking to enact extreme policies through the courts, contrary to the values of the American people, and it must be addressed. [...] In apparent recognition of the threat to the integrity of the judiciary, on March 12, the Judicial Conference of the United States announced a new policy meant to deter judge shopping and to promote “the impartiality of proceedings and bolster public confidence in the federal Judiciary.” Despite the fact that the Judicial Conference is led by a Republican-appointed Chief Justice of the United Stat. [...] Indeed, an anti-judge shopping policy that is applied inconsistently across the country has the potential to deepen, rather than solve, concerns about the partisan and ideological imbalances in the judiciary. [...] In this case, we believe oversight and congressional legislation are needed to ensure a uniform approach that bolsters the administration of justice across the country and finally ends the abusive practice of judge shopping. [...] We are glad to see attention to the issue in Congress, as shown by bills introduced in both chambers to combat the problem.