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HR 5125 Passed a chamber

Eliminates the D.C. Judicial Nomination Commission and gives the President sole authority to nominate D.C. Superior Court and Court of Appeals judges.

Official title: District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025

Next stop Senate: awaiting action
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced 04-SEP-2025
Referred 04-SEP-2025
Approved by committee 10-SEP-2025
On the calendar 15-SEP-2025
Passed 17-SEP-2025
Senate
Received 18-SEP-2025
Key points
  • Repeals section 434 of the District of Columbia Home Rule Act, which created the Judicial Nomination Commission
  • Lets the President nominate D.C. judges without choosing from a list recommended by the commission
  • Lets the President designate D.C. chief judges directly, and removes the commission's role in that process
  • Removes the commission-related qualification language for judges and updates the table of contents to match
  • Applies to appointments made on or after the date of enactment
AI-generated from the Engrossed in House text of 17-SEP-2025 · verify · report an error
Official CRS summary

Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (04-SEP-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 17-SEP-2025).

CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov
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Law

Sponsor Pete Sessions (R-TX) Cosponsors · 2
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2 Republicans