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- 1Congress must now fund DC's newly staffed courts, advocates urge▼Paulette Chapman and Jelahn Stewart: Congress filled DC’s judicial vacancies. Now it must fund the courts.
Paulette Chapman and Jelahn Stewart argue that Congress, having filled Washington DC's long-standing judicial vacancies, must now provide the funding the local courts need to operate effectively. The pair call on lawmakers to follow up judicial appointments with the resources required to address case backlogs and keep the DC court system functioning, in an appeal directed at the federal government.