Mayor Bill de Blasio has failed to fill nine judicial seats that were vacated on Jan. 1, leading to expected backlogs and delays in New York’s justice system, state court officials say. “Today we have 12% fewer judges sitting on the criminal court than we did on Monday, the last day of the year,” said Lawrence Marks, the court system’s chief administrative judge. “The fact that they aren’t on the bench today will have a significant adverse impact on the criminal court’s operations.”...

Source: Wall Street Journal January 02, 2019 21:48 UTC