Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
LACA
The bill formally recognizes College Station as a federal judicial location, which clarifies venue and may improve local access, at the cost of only small administrative updates for court operations without changing jurisdiction or funding.
Provide for the equitable settlement of certain Indian land disputes regarding land in Illinois, and for other purposes.
The bill gives the Miami Tribe a narrow federal path to resolve historic Illinois land claims and the chance for judicial relief if it files quickly, but it imposes an unforgiving one-year deadline and may unsettle property interests and impose costs and uncertainty on landowners, state authorities, and taxpayers.
Diversity Jurisdiction Inflation Adjustment Act
Raising the diversity-jurisdiction threshold to $150,000 reduces federal court workload and modestly lowers federal litigation costs, but shifts many mid-value disputes to state courts, limiting federal access and potentially raising costs for affected plaintiffs.
Taxpayer Due Process Enhancement Act
The bill strengthens taxpayer procedural protections and clarifies Tax Court review rights during collection disputes, but it narrows some statute-of-limitations protections and may increase risks of forfeiture, administrative complexity, and litigation costs for taxpayers and the IRS.
Monitor Accountability Act
The bill reduces costs and increases transparency while limiting long-term federal oversight, but those benefits come with trade-offs: fewer experienced private monitors, potential loss of continuity in long-term oversight, and added procedural and administrative delays.
Protecting Americans from Russian Litigation Act of 2025
The bill prioritizes protecting U.S. persons and national‑security‑driven sanctions compliance from foreign judgment enforcement and liability, at the cost of reducing foreign parties' judicial remedies, increasing diplomatic friction and reciprocal risk, and creating new legal uncertainty for cross‑border commerce.
Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2025
Shivwits Band of Paiutes Jurisdictional Clarity Act
The bill clarifies the Shivwits Band's legal status and makes commercial and leasing rules more predictable—benefiting development and non‑tribal actors—while shifting dispute resolution toward state/federal fora and arbitration, which reduces tribal legal autonomy and can raise costs, uncertainty, and enforcement challenges.
Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025
The bill increases and reallocates bankruptcy filing-fee funding to boost trustee pay, stabilize trustee-system funding, and extend judgeships—improving administrative capacity and predictability—but it raises costs for filers, shifts more burden onto participants, and creates legal, funding-flexibility, and short-term implementation uncertainties.
SPEED Act
The bill speeds permitting and reduces duplicative reviews and litigation for project sponsors and agencies, but does so by narrowing NEPA's scope and judicial remedies in ways that reduce public participation, oversight, and protections for communities, tribes, and the environment.
Tax Court Improvement Act
The bill strengthens Tax Court procedural tools, fairness standards, and protections for late filings—speeding and legitimizing adjudications—while raising compliance costs, privacy risks, and procedural/due‑process and delay concerns for taxpayers, third parties, and court administration.
Courthouse Affordability and Space Efficiency Act of 2025
The bill trades potential taxpayer savings and more standardized, efficient courthouse planning against the risk that one‑size‑fits‑all courtroom requirements will constrain courts with unique or growing needs, force relocations, and sometimes raise construction costs.
District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025
The bill centralizes D.C. judicial nominations with the President, clarifying who appoints judges but reducing local input and raising risks of politicized selections and transitional uncertainty.
Bankruptcy Administration Improvement Act of 2025
The bill strengthens and stabilizes pay and funding for trustees, judges, and the bankruptcy oversight system—improving court continuity and predictability—but does so by reallocating and earmarking more filers' fees (and diverting a small annual amount to the Treasury), which raises costs for bankruptcy users, reduces funding flexibility/transparency, and creates some legal and transition risks.
EARA
The bill speeds and enforces timelines for Interior appeals and strengthens judicial review (reducing uncertainty for land and resource users) at the cost of greater administrative strain on DOI/IBLA, higher litigation risk and expense, and potential disruption to regulatory implementation.
NORRA of 2025
The bill creates a centralized, uniform, and faster framework for resolving nationwide injunctions—benefitting States and reducing conflicting orders—but does so by limiting district‑court relief for individuals and non‑State parties and concentrating high‑stakes review at the Supreme Court, which may weaken checks on executive power.
Laken Riley Act
The bill strengthens federal detention authority and gives states new tools to force federal immigration enforcement—potentially improving public safety and state-level remedies—but does so at the cost of broader mandatory detention, higher taxpayer and agency expenses, more litigation, court delays, and risks to due-process and nationwide enforcement consistency.
Affirming the rule of law and the legitimacy of judicial review.
The resolution publicly reaffirms congressional support for judicial independence and the separation of powers but provides no enforceable remedies and risks increasing partisan tension and legal uncertainty for federal actors.
Ensuring Justice for Camp Lejeune Victims Act of 2025
The bill makes it substantially easier and faster for many Camp Lejeune veterans to obtain compensation (by lowering causation standards, protecting more settlement proceeds, centralizing pretrial handling, and applying rules retroactively), but it increases government exposure and taxpayer cost, centralizes litigation that may burden some plaintiffs, and raises access-to-counsel concerns through fee caps and remaining offset rules.
Authorize an additional district judgeship for the district of Idaho.
The bill adds a federal judgeship in Idaho to speed case resolution and reduce delays for residents and businesses, at modest taxpayer cost and with some risk of political confirmation delays or uneven workload impacts across districts.
Circuit Court of Appeals Reorganization Act of 2026
The bill would rebalance and modernize federal appellate circuits and court facilities to reduce caseload strain and clarify controlling law, but it creates legal and political uncertainty, transitional disruption, and open-ended costs with limited specified congressional oversight.
BOASBERG Act
The bill increases fairness, impartiality, and transparency in federal case assignments through mandatory randomization, reporting, and sanctions, while imposing meaningful administrative costs, procedural trade-offs, and risks that rigid reassignment rules and harsh enforcement could disrupt court operations and judicial discretion.
Supreme Court Ethics Act
The bill increases accountability and transparency for the Supreme Court and federal judiciary through a statutory code, oversight, complaint channels, and disclosure of recusals, but it raises separation-of-powers tensions, increases taxpayer costs, and risks more litigation and procedural complications.
Small Tax Case Threshold Modernization Act
The bill expands access to the Tax Court's low‑cost small‑case process and preserves that access over time by indexing the threshold, at the cost of potentially reduced procedural protections for some taxpayers, higher caseloads/delays, modest administrative burdens, and occasional confusing step changes from the chosen indexing rules.
Supreme Court Biennial Appointments and Term Limits Act of 2026
The bill strengthens continuity and predictability for Supreme Court staffing by mandating prompt succession and timelines to restore a nine-justice Court, but it does so by imposing binding timing and counting rules that risk constitutional challenges, increased politicization, and rushed or gap-ridden appointments.
Judicial Integrity Act
The bill trades greater flexibility and efficiency in handling minor judicial financial conflicts (fewer recusals, a transparent exemption process) for increased discretion that could weaken conflict protections, create inconsistent rules, and erode public trust.
Judicial FOIA Expansion Act
The bill increases public access and oversight of the federal judiciary and modernizes published judicial data, but does so at the cost of privacy risks, potential security concerns, added operational burdens for courts, and likely legal disputes over scope and exemptions.
Justice is BLIND Act of 2026
The bill increases judicial impartiality and public transparency by requiring blind trusts and attestations, at the cost of added compliance complexity, potential financial hardship or reduced flexibility for judges' families, and some privacy trade-offs.
Citizenship Act of 2026
The bill trades stronger, faster federal authority to curb and respond to large‑scale unlawful migration (including narrowed birthright rules and expedited enforcement) for significant risks to birthright citizenship, judicial oversight, family stability, civil rights, and increased administrative and litigation burdens on states and communities.
Monitor Accountability Act
The bill increases transparency, procedural protections, and potential cost savings for government oversight of monitorships, but does so at the risk of reducing the pool and quality of experienced monitors, adding court administrative burdens, and exposing sensitive information through public accountings.
