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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 2, 2021

A bill introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday would add 203 federal trial court positions in 47 judicial districts around the country, a measure to alleviate what sponsors of the legislation called a "crisis" of growing caseloads. The “District Court Judgeships Act of 2021” would provide more than double the 77 judgeships the Judicial Conference of the United States requested in 26 districts for the next fiscal year, Reuters reports. The bill uses a calculation of 400 case filings per judgeship to determine the number of new judges the federal judiciary needs. Under the proposed legislation, one additional district judge would be added in the Middle and Eastern districts of Tennessee.