Schumer Asks US Court in Texas to Change Assignment Practices

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote to a US trial court chief judge asking that the Northern District of Texas change how it assigns cases to prevent judge shopping.

“Even though the Northern District has twelve active judges and another four senior judges who still hear cases, your orders provide that civil cases filed in many divisions are always assigned to a single judge, or to one of just a few,” Schumer wrote in his letter Thursday to Chief Judge David Godbey.

The Northern District of Texas has become a target of Democratic criticism for assignment practices that all but ...