… of cases, perhaps thousands of cases, in front of hundreds of federal judges that go on for years, cost millions of dollars and consume a vast amount of court time. This committee on a bipartisan basis has been trying to increase the number of Article 3 judges because we are already short federal judges. senior status judges, in fact, today are so essential that many judges remain out of a sense of loyalty, hoping that we will increase the number of regular judges so they can fully retire. (06:45–06:55)
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Asserts that there is a bipartisan effort to increase the number of Article 3 judges due to a shortage.
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