It’s Schumer v. Texas in the fight over judge shopping
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It’s Schumer v. Texas in the fight over judge shopping

Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is promising that the Senate will “consider legislative options” to stamp out the practice known as judge shopping. The Judicial Conference of the United States issued guidelines last month aimed at ending the legal maneuver‚ in which plaintiffs strategically file cases in courts where they’re all but guaranteed to find a friendly judge. But on Monday‚ the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas — where conservatives have brought hot-button...