President Biden vetoed a bipartisan bill to add 66 federal judgeships, citing concerns about the process and unanswered questions about the allocation of new judgeships.
President Biden on Monday vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 federal district judgeships, saying 'hurried action' by the House left important questions unanswered about the life-tenured positions.The legislation would have spread the establishment of the new trial court judgeships over more than a decade to give three presidential administrations and six Congress es the chance to appoint the new judges.
The bipartisan effort was carefully designed so that lawmakers wouldn't knowingly give an advantage to either political party in shaping the federal judiciary. The Democratic-controlled Senate passed the measure unanimously in August. But the Republican-led House brought it to the floor only after Republican Donald Trump was reelected to a second term as president in November, adding the veneer of political gamesmanship to the process. The White House had said at the time that Mr. Biden would veto the bill. 'The House of Representatives' hurried action fails to resolve key questions in the legislation, especially regarding how the new judgeships are allocated, and neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate explored fully how the work of senior status judges and magistrate judges affects the need for new judgeships,' the president said in a statement. 'The efficient and effective administration of justice requires that these questions about need and allocation be further studied and answered before we create permanent judgeships for life-tenured judges,' Mr. Biden said. He said the bill would also have created new judgeships in states where senators haven't filled existing judicial vacancies and that those efforts 'suggest that concerns about judicial economy and caseload are not the true motivating force behind passage of this bill now. 'Therefore, I am vetoing this bill,' Mr. Biden said, essentially dooming the legislation for the current Congres
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