The judiciary’s policy-making arm scaled back its funding request by $184 million as part of negotiations with Congress to avoid budget cuts that could hamper defenders’ offices and infrastructure.
Judge Amy J. St. Eve, who chairs the Judicial Conference’s budget committee, and Judge Roslynn R. Mauskopf, the judiciary’s top administrative official who recently announced plans to retire, made the lower pitch for fiscal 2024 to top congressional appropriators in a Nov. 8 letter, released publicly on Friday.
The new funding request of $8.95 billion – while less than the judiciary’s initial ask of $9.1 billion – is ...
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