Judge Robert Conrad, the director of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, in a memo, opens new tab distributed to judges and other court officials nationally, said the judiciary currently estimates it could sustain operations only through October 3.
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Conrad acknowledged the short duration was a “very sharp change” from how the courts were able to sustain paid operations for the entirety of a five-week shutdown that began in December 2018 during President Donald Trump’s first administration.
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Should money run out, judges and Supreme Court justices would still get paid, thanks to a constitutional bar against a diminution in their pay. But law clerks, probation officers, and other employees would not.
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I feel like the Administration is starving the court budget on purpose, in order to derail the multiple court cases against it. If this turns into a protracted shutdown, it will be interesting to see whether those court cases will be delayed (and whether other court cases pushed by the administration and the President himself go forward)…