US Courts Up Budget Requests for Security, Public Defenders (1)

The federal judiciary is requesting a nearly 10% increase in its budget for the next fiscal year, with two of its largest proposed increases going toward court security and federal public defenders.

The federal courts are seeking a nearly 19% increase from last fiscal year in money for court security measures, for a total of $892 million.

“These funds are necessary to address the substantial increase in threats against federal judges,” the budget request reads. It also says the money will “mitigate the significant underfunding” of the court security account, after it was held at a hard freeze for the ...