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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Defunded, technically. It sounds like judges can still force their staff to work if they think it’s really important.
Also, since the Supreme Court has just been able to overrule any lower Court decisions they don’t like without offering any kind of justification, that “kind of” really can’t be emphasized enough.