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President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Pushed Prohibition And The New Deal

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As the climate in society has changed and new trends in lawmaking were established, the caseload for the federal court increased dramatically. The new concepts of President Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society” pushed Prohibition and the “New Deal” pushed for changes and additions to the federal judiciary. This forced the creation of specialized courts and the addition the appellate courts (paraphrase). In the metropolitan area is where the federal judges are seeing a huge increase. They have to set civil trials back months or sometimes years to make space for criminal cases. This must be done to give every defendant their constitutional right to a speedy trial. There has been a possible solution of increasing the number of federal judges then
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