The Committee on Civil Rules received letters from Democratic lawmakers and the Brennan Center for Justice warning that procedures in so-called single-judge divisions allow litigants to lodge challenges to nationwide policies, guaranteeing their matter will be heard by a specific judge viewed as likely to rule in their favor.

Committee members seemed divided over whether to require courts to randomly assign among all judges in a district any lawsuit where a plaintiff seeks national relief extending beyond the district where the case is lodged.

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