Chuck Grassley: “I would just observe that more government isn't necessarily better government, and, also, in the sense of justice more…”

“I would just observe that more government isn't necessarily better government, and, also, in the sense of justice more judges do not automatically guarantee better justice. I can remember from my service, being appointed by the Chief Justice in 1989, I believe it was, to a 2-year study, the only study we have ever had, of the Federal judiciary that we were looking and projecting what number of cases were going to have to be filed over the next couple of decades. The only conclusion you could come to, if those figures were accurate--and, so far, they have been proven to be accurate--is that you could never appoint enough judges to take care of the problems that we are having with the explosion of cases; that you have to look at a lot of other ways. How do you dispense justice in the less-adversarial environment of a courtroom and in the less-costly environment of the courtroom? For instance, what can you do for alternate dispute resolutions? There are a lot of other ways that I as a nonlawyer am not qualified to speak to. But I can tell you that more judges is never going to solve the problem of more cases. Another area we have to do something about is tort reform, as an example of something that we have to do about the number of cases piling up.”