President Joe Biden on Monday night vetoed a bipartisan bill that would create new judgeships during a future presidential administration, allowing President-elect Donald Trump to create up to 22 new federal judgeships in his second term. blocked the opportunity to appoint court judges;
Biden cited the House Republican leadership’s decision to delay taking up the issue. law His veto statement released Monday said his opposition to expanding the federal judiciary stemmed from concerns about the motivations of Republican lawmakers for supporting the bill, which continued into the election.
“S. 4199 would create new judicial positions in states where senators are seeking to fill existing judicial vacancies,” Biden said in a statement. “These efforts to maintain open vacancies suggest that concerns about judicial economics and caseloads are not the true driving force behind the passage of this bill at this time.” (Related: John Kennedy says questioning Biden’s judicial nominees is ‘better than sex’)
Republican Indiana State Senator Todd Young; Department of Justice understaffing slows emergency resolution (Judges) Act of 2024 sparked a firestorm over the Biden administration’s veto announcement in the X thread Monday night.
“This decision is just one example of why Americans are counting the days until President Biden leaves the White House,” Young said. I wrote “This veto is partisan politics at its worst. The Judges Act is a fair bill with strong bipartisan support, and the Judges Act is a fair bill with strong bipartisan support, and over the course of the president’s three terms, 66 judges were appointed to address the backlog of the judiciary. will be established.”
This decision is just one example of why Americans are counting down the days until President Biden leaves the White House.https://t.co/6J3iRfaMb3
— Sen. Todd Young (@SenToddYoung) December 24, 2024
“The president is more intent on using his office to help families who have received due process than he is to help millions of ordinary Americans who have been waiting years for due process.” ” Young added. “Biden’s legacy will be ‘pardon for me, but no justice for you.'”
of Judges Act 2024 With broad bipartisan support, Republican and Democratic lawmakers recognized the need to confirm new federal district court judges to support overworked and overwhelmed judges. In certain areas of the country, the population is increasing and the number of lawsuits filed is also increasing.
The bill would allow President Trump to nominate up to 22 new federal district court judges over the next four years, with a series of 10 to 11 judges to be appointed every two years by a successor president until 2035, officials said. new judges will be appointed. summary Bill from Young. The last time Congress updated the number of federal district court judges was in 1990.
invoice passed Passed unanimously in the Senate in August won Speaker Mike Johnson decided to take up the bill on December 12th, and 29 House Democrats supported it.
Prominent Biden allies, including Democratic Delaware Sen. Chris Coons and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Support that speaks out for legislation early this year.
Young and Coons, an original co-sponsor of the federal judiciary expansion bill, lamented Biden’s decision to veto the bill Monday night. (Related article: Mr. Dem Sen, who said that Mr. Biden is “getting carried away” in 2024, deflects and defends himself when asked by a FOX News host to “repent”)
““My understanding is that the president’s view is that he cannot support passing this late in session and leaving it up to the next president to confirm 22 judges,” Coons said. said Politico. “If I could change the date by four years, I know – he told me – if I could change the date, I’d sign it tomorrow.”
Previously Kuhn was popular The bill passed the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously in June.
“Today, I am pleased that the Senate Judiciary Committee is taking seriously the crisis facing overworked judges across the country by taking up my bipartisan Judges Act and moving it to the Senate floor. ” said Koons. “For too long, Congress has failed to add new federal judges to keep up with the growing caseload across the country, and our federal courts, especially in Delaware, where there are only four active judges, are paying the price. I am paying.”
More than 300 federal judges appointed by both Democratic and Republican administrations called for the Judiciary Act, according to the editorial. young I wrote The Washington Post on December 12 advocated for Biden to sign the bill over the president’s veto. caveat.
“Biden will move toward solving the judicial crisis by signing the Judges Act, a bipartisan bill I introduced to increase the number of federal district court judges in some of the most overworked parts of the country.” “I now have the opportunity to rejoin Congress,” Young wrote. editorial. “Hundreds of thousands of Americans must wait years for their federal cases to be heard. Many litigants feel that their only option is to settle their case with a suboptimal outcome in order to provide some degree of certainty. Our judicial system is collapsing under the weight of caseloads, overworked judges are retiring, and the overwhelming burden is discouraging talented candidates from pursuing the federal judiciary. ”
Republican lawmakers are likely to try to pass similar legislation in the next Congress, when Trump is in the Oval Office and Republicans control the House and Senate.
On Friday, Biden celebrated The Senate confirmed 235 federal judges during his presidency. According to Biden’s statement, this is the largest number of federal judgeships secured in a single presidential term since the 1980s.
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