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A bill to increase the number of Federal judgeships, in accordance with recommendations by the Judicial Conference, in districts that have an extraordinarily high immigration caseload.

1/25/2007--Introduced.

Directs the President to appoint additional district court judges as are necessary to carry out the 2005 recommendations of the Judicial Conference for district courts in which the criminal immigration filings represented more than 50% of all criminal filings for the 12-month period ending September 30, 2004.

Latest Actions
  • 01/25/2007 - Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S1190-1191)
  • 01/25/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (text of measure as introduced: CR S1191)
Bill Text
File name Last Updated
S.389 Introduced in Senate08/31/2007