Federal judicial officials have signaled they won’t move forward with an effort to curb judge-shopping, following blowback from Republicans who will soon control the White House and Congress, according to a member of Congress and another person familiar with the matter.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) said Wednesday in a hallway interview he had received “some pretty firm confirmations” from the Administrative Office of the US Courts that it doesn’t intend to move forward with a rule requiring trial courts to randomly assign certain cases. A second person familiar with the matter said they had also heard from ...