DC Courts pleads with Congress for funding as system reaches tipping point

Years of flat funding are stretching the District of Columbia Courts thin, placing a system relied on by thousands each day under what officials describe as unsustainable pressure. It’s left administrators, judges and clerks to juggle an ever-growing caseload and heightened security needs with a budget that hasn’t kept pace. “We have certainly reached a critical inflection point,” said…

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