Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) is looking at legislative options to ensure federal court cases are randomly assigned after a top U.S. district court judge in Texas rejected Mr. Schumer’s calls to change his court’s case assignment methods.
Mr. Schumer has urged courts to adopt a randomized case assignment process to curtail a practice commonly known as “judge shopping,” wherein litigants try to bring lawsuits before specific judges and courts they believe are more likely to rule in their favor.
“Judge shopping has been abused by right-wing activists to subvert the will of the people,” Mr. Schumer said in a press statement on Monday….
