Judicial Conference of the United States

To speed federal justice, I propose an increase this year in the United States attorneys prosecuting federal crimes and the reinforcement of the number of United States marshals.

Additional federal judges are needed, as recommended by me and the Judicial Conference.

Another major threat to every American's person and property is the criminal carrying a handgun.

The way to cut down on the criminal use of guns is not to take guns away from the law-abiding citizen, but to impose mandatory sentences for crimes in which a gun is used, make it harder to obtain cheap guns for criminal purposes, and concentrate gun control enforcement in high-crime areas.

We have this, these disclosure rules.

We're gonna, we're gonna follow them." I mean, the thing is that if they don't file a disclosure, if they lie in the disclosure, the attorney general can bring a civil action against the individual if, if i- uh, but typically it has to go through the judicial conference, and the judicial conference, which is the policymaking body of the judiciary, is run by Chief Justice Roberts, and as a body runs interference on ethics issues.

Uh, there's a judge in Georgia that had sex in her chambers and lied about it, and she should be impeached, and the judicial conference, their committee on judicial Misconduct could have done something and they didn't.

Uh, the judicial council there didn't do anything.

So the infrastructure of the judiciary itself, it's not just the court, it sort of insulates the justices from accountability.

And so I started doing a lot of public speaking, so I spoke at law schools, I spoke at conferences, and I talked about anything: diversity in the legal profession, what it's like to be a working mom, appellate law practice.

I got the chance to work with a group of current and former law clerks to advocate on issues of judicial misconduct in the federal courts, and then ended up working with a bunch of judiciaries across the country on their own judicial misconduct procedures, and so that gave me the chance to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee and the Judicial Conference.

I helped start a podcast.

I ended up serving as the secretary of the Inn of Court in DC, which is where the 200 biggest appellate nerds meet once a month during the Supreme Court term and have cocktails and panels, and so I thought, "This is a ton of work, but it'll get me the chance to get to know everyone." And so I did all of these things kind of as my side gig while also trying to learn to be a really good appellate lawyer.

I, I agree.

And he said, "I think it's the only antidote to the, uh, acrimonious theater that you're gonna get otherwise." And he went on to say, "You don't have many news sources that are viewed as independent anymore, rightly or wrongly." Now, in a separate effort, a coalition of three dozen House Democrats has written a letter to the Judicial Conference, which oversees federal court procedures, seeking a narrower change of policy to allow for televised proceedings of any Trump federal trial.

Citing increased interest in the issue, the Congressional Research Service has published a memo detailing options for the Congress to consider.

The memo, issued in August and reviewed by CBS News as well, said the federal prohibition on cameras in federal courts can only be overturned through a decision by the Judicial Conference of the United States, which administers the federal court system, or through congressional legislation.

And a quote from this ending it is, "Debate regarding whether to expand video broadcasting in the federal courts often weigh an interest in providing public information about proceedings against preserving the integrity of the legal process and due process rights of parties." And that is from the memo.

So we'll see what happens with that.

Yeah, I don't know.

The Judicial Conference is made up of, like, 80% conservative judges.