Leaders on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pushing to quickly pass a measure to create more federal judgeships, eyeing an upcoming pandemic relief package as a way to get the legislation through Congress.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham and ranking member Sen. Dianne Feinstein were both in favor of adding more Article III judges at a hearing Tuesday on such a request from the Judicial Conference, and seemed prepared to take swift action to address those needs.

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