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Federal judiciary leadership and some lawmakers are criticizing President Biden for vetoing a bill that would’ve added 66 new federal judgeships amid growing caseloads. Biden on Monday made

Biden drew sharp criticism from lawmakers and organizations representing lawyers and judges for vetoing the JUDGES Act.

The Democratic-controlled Senate passed the measure in August, but the Republican-led House brought it to the floor only after Trump was reelected.

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,

President Biden on Monday vetoed a bill that would have added 66 federal district judgeships over a span of more than a decade.

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.

President Joe Biden will leave office with more lifetime judicial confirmations than his predecessor and a legacy of diversifying the federal bench, a win for Democrats in the final days of the 118th Congress.