Biden vetoes bill adding new judges to courts following Trump’s win

Biden vetoes bill adding new judges to courts following Trump’s win

Biden vetoes bill adding new judges to courts following Trump’s win

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(Reuters) – Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a once widely bipartisan measure that lawmakers in his party began to abandon after Republican President-elect Donald Trump won the Nov. 5 election and chance to name the first batch of judges.

The outgoing president made good on a veto threat issued two days before the bill on Dec. 12 passed the Republican-led U.S. House of Representatives, dooming what would have been the first major expansion of the federal judiciary since 1990.

(Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Himani Sarkar)

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