UPDATE 1-US courts set to run out of money, begin furloughs as shutdown lingers
Published on: Oct. 18, 2025, 1:44 a.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
Chief U.S. District Judge Virginia Kendall of the Chicago-based Northern District of Illinois in a statement said she was "concerned that the lack of appropriation will create delays in the court’s ability to ensure timely justice." Federal public defenders, who represent indigent defendants who have a right to a lawyer, working in offices that are part of the judiciary likewise will not get paid, nor will private lawyers who do the same under the Criminal Justice Act. Those private lawyers' pay has already been delayed since July after funding for them ran out, a development the courts deem a "crisis."
