It's been years since Congress created more federal judge positions, and the latest proposal seeking to make up for lost time appears as quixotic as it is ambitious. Senators Christopher Coons (D-Del.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced legislation last week to add 91 judges to the nation's circuit and district courts, which would represent the largest increase in more than three decades.
That's the number of judges the U.S. Judicial Conference requested this year as reinforcement for overworked districts such as the Eastern District of California, which Chief Judge Morrison England Jr. described last week as "just at the point of breaking."
