The Judicial Conference of the United States, the federal judiciary's policymaking body, had its semiannual meeting today. It's not open to the public/press; reporters get a briefing after and there's a press release about what they did: uscourts.gov/news/2021/03/1…
Highlights:
Highlights:
The judiciary is asking Congress to create 2 new circuit court judgesips in the 9th Circuit and 77 new district court judgeships. Judge Claire Eagen, who did the press briefing, explained that they get these numbers based on a survey of courts 
The last comprehensive bill creating new judgeships was in 1990, and an additional 34 district judgeships were added between 1999 and 2003. So it's been a while — the judiciary has made repeated asks for more judgeships based on increasing caseloads over the years
The judiciary is hoping Congress acts on a package of security reforms that were introduced last year after an attack on a judge's family, which incl. scrubbing judges' personal info from the internet; the Marshals are offering home security upgrades to judges in the meantime
The judiciary is also asking Congress for more $ to secure courthouses after dozens of buildings were damaged during protests last year + what happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 — incl. reinforcing first-floor windows, doors, new cameras
In response to a question about it, Eagan shared that the investigation into the SolarWinds cyberattack (see: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/cy…) is ongoing, and they still don't know what was accessed
Finally, Eagan said eight members of Congress (Leahy, Durbin, Whitehouse, Hyde-Smith, Nadler, Johnson, Issa, and Womack) + acting Deputy Attorney General John Carlin attended, but declined to share what they spoke about to the judges (they always decline to talk about this)
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