Supreme Court Justice Circuit Riding Act

This bill would require Supreme Court justices to serve as judges on the federal courts of appeals, a practice known as circuit riding. The Chief Justice would assign justices to circuits, mainly during the court's summer recess from July 1 to October 1. Each assigned justice would have to sit on appeals court panels for at least 10 days of oral argument each year, in person rather than by video. Justices could not take part in full-court rehearings of those cases and would have to step aside if a case they heard on a circuit court later came before them. The government would pay their reasonable travel and lodging costs, and the Chief Justice would issue rules for the process within 180 days.

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Sponsors

• Joseph D. Morelle Democrat sponsor
• 4 cosponsors