DC Courts pleads with Congress for funding as system reaches tipping point

• Years of flat funding are stretching the District of Columbia Courts thin, placing a system relied on by thousands each day under what officials describe as unsustainable pressure.
• It's left administrators, judges and clerks to juggle an ever-growing caseload and heightened security needs with a budget that hasn't kept pace.
• "We have certainly reached a critical inflection point," said...