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38 Third Branch 1 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/thirdbran38 and id is 1 raw text is: THE THIRD RAN Newsletter of the Federal n, Courts Vol. 38 Number 2 January 2006 2005 Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary Introduction New Year's Day in America means football, parades, and, of course, the Year-End Report on the Federal Judiciary. I am pleased to carry on the tradition launched by Chief Justice Burger, and continued for the past 19 years by Chief Justice Rehnquist, of issuing on New Year's Day a report on the state of the federal courts. I recognize that it is a bit presumptuous for me to issue this Report at this time, barely three months after taking the oath as Chief Justice. It remains for me very much a time for listening rather than speaking. But I do not intend to start the New Year by breaking with a 30- year-old tradition, and so will high- light in this Report issues that are pressing and apparent, even after only a few months on the job. First and foremost: the state of the federal judiciary is strong. We celebrated on September 24th the 250th anniversary of the birth of Chief Justice John Marshall. If Marshall were able to observe the work of the federal courts today, there doubtless would be much that would surprise him. But he would see in the work of the men and women who took the same judicial oath he did the same commitment to uphold the Constitution and to fulfill the Fram- (Photo courtesy of Steve Petteway, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States) er's vision of a judicial branch with the strength and independence to

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