The Philadelphia Bar Association’s criminal justice section has dropped its bid to win support for legislation aimed at providing needed funding for indigent defense counsel at the expense of the Jenkins Law Library.

The section had been seeking support for a bill that aims to redirect revenue given to the Jenkins Law Library so that Philadelphia, which funds conflict-counsel, could in turn provide roughly $2 million in additional funding to the city’s indigent defense attorneys. However, after pushback from the law library and other groups within the bar association, the criminal justice section has opted not to bring a resolution seeking the bar’s support for the bill to the full board of governor’s meeting set for Thursday.