{"id":2383397,"date":"2024-12-24T13:26:01","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T18:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-vetoes-bipartisan-bill-in-order-to-block-trump-from-making-additional-judicial-appointments\/"},"modified":"2024-12-24T13:31:23","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T18:31:23","slug":"biden-vetoes-bipartisan-bill-in-order-to-block-trump-from-making-additional-judicial-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-vetoes-bipartisan-bill-in-order-to-block-trump-from-making-additional-judicial-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Vetoes Bipartisan Bill in Order to Block Trump from Making Additional Judicial Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-vetoes-bipartisan-bill-in-order-to-block-trump-from-making-additional-judicial-appointments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2383397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Joe\u2062 Biden recently vetoed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-tebow-teams-with-bipartisan-group-of-lawmakers-to-introduce-the-renewed-hope-act\/\" title=\"Tim Tebow Teams with Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers to Introduce the &#039;Renewed Hope Act&#039;\">bipartisan initiative aimed<\/a> at creating \u200d66 new federal district judgeships, citing concerns\u200c about &#8220;hurried action&#8221; by the\u2063 House of Representatives, which he <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">believed left critical \u2064questions unanswered<\/a> regarding the allocation of these positions.\u2062 The proposal\u2063 had been designed to distribute the\u200b new \u200cjudgeships over a decade,\u2064 allowing multiple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-labor-purge-sparks-legal-challenge\/\" title=\"Biden Labor Purge Sparks Legal Challenge\">presidential administrations<\/a>\u2063 and Congresses to have input, avoiding a partisan\u200d advantage in\u2064 shaping\u2063 the\u200d judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate had passed the measure unanimously,but it was\u2064 only \u200cbrought\u2064 to \u2064the House floor after Donald Trump,a \u2064Republican,was re-elected. The \u2063White House had previously indicated Biden would\u200c veto the bill, and in his statement, he\u2064 emphasized the need\u200d to study the necessity and\u200b distribution of judges before creating life-tenured appointments.Biden\u200b highlighted that the bill also proposed \u2063judgeships in states with unfilled\u200b vacancies, questioning the motivations behind the proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Critics, \u200dincluding Republican \u200bSenator Todd Young, condemned the veto\u2062 as misguided, arguing it denied justice to\u200c many waiting for resolution in the judicial system, while expressing\u2062 dissatisfaction \u2064with Biden&#8217;s recent pardons granted to family members. Overriding the\u2062 veto will require a two-thirds majority in both \u2063chambers of Congress, a threshold that appears unlikely based on \u200dthe recent House \u200dvote. The\u200b veto effectively halts any progress on the legislation for the current Congress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 federal district judgeships, saying &ldquo;hurried action&rdquo; by the House left important questions unanswered about the life-tenured positions.<\/p>\n<p>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 Congresses the chance to appoint the new judges. The bipartisan effort was carefully designed, so lawmakers would not knowingly give an advantage to either political party in shaping the federal judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic-controlled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sore-losers-senate-democrats-move-change-presidential-election-rules-via-constitutional-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Senate<\/a> passed the measure unanimously in August. But the Republican-led House brought it to the floor only after Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ford-donates-eye-watering-amount-cash-trumps-inauguration-along-vehicle-fleet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> was re-elected to a second term in November.<\/p>\n<p>The White House had said at the time that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-gives-christmas-gift-vicious-murderers-commutes-sentences-nearly-every-death-row-inmate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Biden<\/a> would veto the bill.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The House of Representative&rsquo;s 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,&rdquo; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/presidential-actions\/2024\/12\/23\/message-to-the-senate-on-the-presidents-veto-of-s-4199\/\">president said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/erickson-reversing-roe\/\" title=\"ERICKSON: Reversing Roe\">life-tenured judges<\/a>,&rdquo; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the bill would also have created new judgeships in states where senators have not filled existing judicial vacancies and those efforts &ldquo;suggest that concerns about judicial economy and caseload are not the true motivating force behind passage of this bill now.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Therefore, I am vetoing this bill,&rdquo; Biden said, essentially dooming the legislation for the current Congress. Overturning Biden&rsquo;s veto would require a two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate, and the House vote fell well short of that margin.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations representing judges and attorneys had urged Congress to vote for the bill. They argued that the lack of new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-judicial-nominees-highlight-conflict-between-progressives-civil-rights-groups\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s Judicial Nominees Highlight Conflict Between Progressives, Civil Rights Groups\">federal judgeships<\/a> had contributed to profound delays in the resolution of cases and serious concerns about access to justice.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Todd Young of Indiana reacted swiftly, calling the veto a &ldquo;misguided decision&rdquo; and &ldquo;another example of why Americans are counting down the days until President Biden leaves the White House.&rdquo; He alluded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/heated-audio-karine-jean-pierre-gets-grilled-reporters-scrambles-defend-biden-pardoning-hunter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full pardon<\/a> that Biden recently granted his son Hunter on federal gun and tax charges.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The president is more enthusiastic about using his office to provide relief to his family members who received due process than he is about giving relief to the millions of regular Americans who are waiting years for their due process,&rdquo; Young said. &ldquo;Biden&rsquo;s legacy will be &lsquo;pardons for me, no justice for thee.&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered it prior to publication to ensure that it meets our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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The plan aimed to gradually establish new judgeships over more than ten years, allowing three presidential administrations and six Congresses to make appointments. While the Democratic-controlled Senate passed the bill unanimously in August, it was brought to a vote in the Republican-led House only after Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election. Biden&#8217;s statement emphasized that further study on allocation and need for new judgeships was necessary before creating permanent positions. He noted that the bill would have added judgeships in states with unfilled vacancies, suggesting motivations beyond judicial efficiency. Overriding his veto would require a two-thirds majority in both chambers, which seems unlikely given recent voting patterns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/d346e57a8ff64c5abdf5c83d37a05eac-scaled.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,34555,46692,3634,14351],"class_list":["post-2383397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-bipartisan-bill","tag-judicial-appointments","tag-trump","tag-veto"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/d346e57a8ff64c5abdf5c83d37a05eac-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2383397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2383401,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383397\/revisions\/2383401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2383398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}