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Yesterday — 5 September 2025Main stream

Kavanaugh Acknowledges ‘Difficult Job’ of His Lower-Court Colleagues

5 September 2025 at 05:39
Speaking at a judicial conference in Memphis, the justice expressed sympathy for the district-court judges whose rulings the Supreme Court has repeatedly paused.

© Brad J. Vest for The New York Times

Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh called trial-court judges “the front lines of American justice” while addressing the annual Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference in Memphis on Thursday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

3 September 2025 at 23:21
After a 2020 breach thought to be Russia’s work, the courts told Congress that they would harden a system storing sealed documents. Five years later, the system was hacked again.

© Dave Sanders for The New York Times

The unique culture of the judiciary, which can tilt toward tradition over innovation, has led it to move more slowly than a private company or other branches of government might.
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