United States – A federal district court in Texas that has become a frolic area for conservatives suing to stop President Joe Biden’s agenda resisted following a change of procedure adopted by the judiciary’s top policymaking body that purports to prevent the so-called “judge shopping.”
Conservative Stronghold in Texas
Judge David Godbey, Chief of the U.S. District Court of the Northern District in the Texas, made such an announcement in a letter to Schumer, the U.S. Senate Democratic majority leader, urging him to adopt a new policy that aims to make cases regarding federal or state laws assigned to random judges, as reported by Reuters.
The policy just announced by the Council of the United States on March 12 would require any lawsuits, whether against the city or the state, to be randomly assigned to a judge in a federal district instead of staying in the little corner from where the case had been initially filed.
The policy would jeopardize the efforts of the conservative litigants who mostly file cases in various divisions of the four federal districts in Texas with only one or two judges who were appointed by Republican presidents and predominantly ruled in their favor on controversial matters such as abortion, immigration, and guns.
The response from the Senate Republicans and some conservative judges to the Senate policy was so fierce that it forced the judicial policymakers to declare that the policy was discretionary and that each district court would still decide how to implement it.
Godbey’s letter

Godbey wrote the letter to say that the judges in the district where he is an assignee of former President George W. Bush met on Wednesday. “The consensus was not to make any change to our case assignment process at this time,” he said.
In the beginning, his letter was reported by the Law360 news outlet. Speakers of Schumer did not reply to a request for comment on Saturday.
The Northern District of Texas in the U.S. District Court is the jurisdiction of 11 active judges, and it is divided into seven divisions. Many judges are in Dallas, but the divisions have just one or two judges: Amarillo, Fort Worth, and Lubbock.
Supreme Court’s Review of Texas Case
The U.S. Supreme Court, On Tuesday, heard arguments on this case, which was arising from one of these little courts where U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, an appointee of the Republican former President Donald Trump in the swine division of Amarillo, had previously suspended approval of the abortion pill mifepristone, as reported by Reuters.
The medication is still available on the market while the Supreme Court reviews the case. During Tuesday’s proceedings, justices hinted they might not maintain the limits.
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