The federal court system — which has already paused filing deadlines and hearings — will further slow operations beginning Monday due to the government shutdown.
The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts said Friday that starting Monday it will no longer have the money to sustain “full, paid operations.” Until the shutdown is resolved, courts “will maintain limited operations necessary to perform the Judiciary’s constitutional functions.
Federal judges will continue to serve, but court staff may only perform certain excepted activities permitted under the federal Antideficiency Act. That law prohibits agencies from obligating money they do not have, but allows work to continue if necessary to support judicial powers.
The court said examples of excepted work include activities necessary to perform constitutional functions, activities necessary for human life and protection of property, and activities otherwise authorized by federal law.
