Federal courts move to make judge shopping more difficult

The Left has been losing over, and over, and over again pretty much since President Joe Biden took office. They have lost in trying to indict, and remove Donald Trump from the presidential race, they have lost American confidence in the administration, and they have lost numerous court battles. Most recently, the case over the abortion drug Mifepristone has sparked new waves of controversy, and upheaval from the Left.

Federal courts are now moving to make the practice of judge shopping or filing lawsuits in front of judges seen as friendly to a certain point of view, much harder. Their new move would require a judge to be randomly assigned even in areas where locally filed cases have gone before a single judge. Most cases are already assigned at random in the 94 federal district courts, but some plans assign cases to judges in the smaller division where the case is filed.

Legal expert Zack Smith says this is mostly coming as a result of the Left just being sore losers.

"Some of them are just unhappy with several rulings, especially from district courts in Texas, and there is now a push to overhaul the way the assignments are made," he says.

Senators and the Biden Administration have raised their concerns with it, and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts highlighted it in his 2021 report on the federal judiciary.

But this push to randomness might have some unintended consequences.

"It may result in litigants for a variety of other cases...having to travel father to have their cases heard," he says.

It is humorous to think that liberals suddenly want to become the great levelers of the justice system, after using it, and twisting it to their will for many years. All they have done along the way is destroy American confidence in justice, and the legal system as a whole.

"Many policies the Democrats cannot get assed int he Senate and House...they instead lobby it to a judicial conference...to implement the policies," he says. "We have seen it in terms of implementing the DEI programs...it is all troubling, and unfortunately, injects politics into the judicial administration."

That bit of 'lawfare' as it is called is a prime reason why Americans have lost their faith in the system.

While the cat might be out of the bag, there are some possible steps to take in fixing the problem.

"One of the best first steps would be to get judges, and the administrative body...out of the business of responding to political demands," he says. "Unfortunately, this latest move...does not do that, and in fact gives the perception that judges are responding to political powers."

Smith says now, we just have to wait and see how this plays out in practice, and what gets decided.