(Reuters) – Democratic US President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationwide, a measure that won broad bipartisan support, and lawmakers in his party have begun In abandoning it after the victory of Republican President-elect Donald Trump in the November 5 elections. And an opportunity to name the first batch of referees.
The outgoing president carried out his veto threat issued two days before the bill was passed on December 12 in the Republican-led US House of Representatives, eliminating what would have been the first major expansion of the federal judiciary since 1990.
