LOS ANGELES — Fewer than two weeks after U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., introduced a bill that would authorize more federal judgeships nationwide, a federal district judge in Los Angeles announced that he would resign on Nov. 2 because he can no longer afford to remain on the bench.
U.S. District Judge Stephen Larson of the Los Angeles-based Central District of California said in a prepared statement on Tuesday that the failure by Congress to increase judicial salaries made it impossible to support his seven children, all under age 18.
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