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The bill strengthens protection for the judiciary and expands the Marshals Service's interagency and investigatory powers while shifting control to a judicial-led structure — improving operational continuity and protection but raising privacy, accountability, separation-of-powers, and fiscal concerns.
Federal judges, court officers, witnesses, and other threatened participants in judicial proceedings will receive direct personal protection from the U.S. Marshals Service when criminal intimidation impedes court operations.
State, local, and federal law-enforcement efforts (e.g., fugitive investigations and missing-children searches) can be reinforced because the U.S. Marshals Service is authorized to assist the Department of Justice and other agencies on approved requests.
Federal law-enforcement management gains a clearer leadership structure and continuity: the bill creates a Director and Supervisory Board to oversee USMS operations and standardizes U.S. marshal terms to four years with holdover authority, which is intended to improve efficiency and operational stability.
Federal appointment and supervisory authority over the Marshals is shifted away from the Attorney General and President to the Chief Justice and a judicial Supervisory Board, reducing executive-branch control over a major law-enforcement agency.
Placing substantial USMS appointment and oversight authority under the judicial branch raises separation-of-powers and accountability concerns for oversight of policing activities.
Individuals may face expanded government information collection because the bill authorizes the U.S. Marshals Service to issue administrative subpoenas for investigating unregistered sex offenders, raising privacy and surveillance risks.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Reorganizes the U.S. Marshals Service as a judicial-branch bureau, creates a Chief-Justice-appointed Director and Supervisory Board, and shifts marshal appointment and protection authorities.
Introduced May 22, 2025 by Cory Anthony Booker · Last progress May 22, 2025
Reorganizes the U.S. Marshals Service as a judicial-branch bureau, creates a Director of the Service appointed by the Chief Justice with supervision and removal authority vested in a new Supervisory Board, and shifts key appointment powers for U.S. marshals from the Attorney General to the Chief Justice in consultation with that Board. It also clarifies marshal terms and holdover authority, revises protections for jurists, court officers, witnesses and other threatened persons, and adjusts related statutory provisions and cross-references in Title 28 of the U.S. Code.