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Jun. 10, 2025
Congress sidestepped long-standing legal rulemaking process
The congressional budget bill bypassed the established multi-branch review process required for changing federal civil procedure rules.
William Slomanson
Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
Email: bills@tjsl.edu
William Slomanson is also the author of California Procedure in a Nutshell (5th ed. 2014).
Kudos to John H. Minan for his authoritative description of the pending congressional budget bill's "One big beautiful loophole: How the budget bill guts the rule of law." One more arrow can be added to his quiver: How changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure occur. As the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure provide: "The Supreme Court shall have ...
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