President Joe Biden has vetoed a once-bipartisan effort to add 66 new federal district judgeships. WASHINGTON — President Joe 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.

President Joe Biden has vetoed bipartisan legislation that would have added dozens of new federal judge positions in the coming years. The president had threatened to veto the bill because he didn’t want to give the president-elect new appointment opportunities,

Biden previously threatened to reject the measure in order to prevent Donald Trump from having the opportunity to appoint 22 extra judges in his next term.

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President Joe Biden spared the lives of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row before passing the torch to President-elect Donald Trump. Biden did not pardon the murderers, but rather downgrade

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