A Republican bill with 1 Republican cosponsor · See the cosponsor
Last activity — Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
In committee
Introduced and handed to a committee in the chamber it started in.
The committee holds it, and most bills are never heard from again. A hearing or a committee vote would be news; silence is the usual outcome, and it kills the bill without anyone voting against it.
Its path through Congress
- Introduced
- In Committee
What this bill would do
This bill, titled the ``District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act'', seeks to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act. The primary goal is to terminate the District of Columbia Judicial Nomination Commission. It includes several conforming amendments regarding the appointment of judges. These changes shift certain roles and responsibilities directly to the President. The amendments also affect the qualifications required for judges.
Yes
- Scored +5
Does this give the federal government more power?
The bill increases federal authority by transferring the power to designate chief judges and nominate other judges from a local commission to the President.
The opposite
- Scored -4
Would people in cities be better off under this?
The bill reduces local control over the judicial selection process in the District of Columbia.
- Scored -3
Does this protect the right to fair treatment by the courts?
The bill removes the independent judicial nomination commission, shifting judicial selection power directly to the President.
Who it would affect, and how
Potential Positive Impacts for People
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Potential Negative Impacts for People
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Groups and Interests Ranking
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- Demographic And Interest Groups
- Would people in cities be better off under this? — The bill reduces local control over the judicial selection process in the District of Columbia.
- Governance And Ideology
- Does this give the federal government more power? — The bill increases federal authority by transferring the power to designate chief judges and nominate other judges from a local commission to the President. Does this protect the right to fair treatment by the courts? — The bill removes the independent judicial nomination commission, shifting judicial selection power directly to the President.
- 9/29/2025
- 1 Cosponsor added.
- 9/18/2025
- Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
- Introduced in Senate
One bill Congress.gov lists as related to this one — companions in the other chamber, earlier versions, and bills this one absorbed or was folded into.
Marsha BlackburnRepublican · Tennessee