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President Biden’s main ally is “disappointed” after he vetoed the bill it would increase the number of federal judges currently serving.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who served as campaign co-chair for both of Biden’s recent presidential campaigns, emphasized that he and his Republican counterpart, Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., kept bipartisanship in mind when crafting the bill.
“I am disappointed in this outcome, for my own state and for federal judges across the country who are struggling under an ever-increasing caseload. I have worked on this bill for years, and thanks to a tireless bipartisan effort with Senator Young, it has reached the President’s desk. Great is unfortunate that it won’t become law,” Coons said Tuesday.
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Sen. Chris Coons said he was disappointed after President Biden followed through on his veto threat. (Fox News Digital)
Then he blamed himself House Republicans due to the eventual failure of the bill, however, due to a vote on it after the 2024 election.
“Senator Young and I worked hard to make this a nonpartisan process, structuring the Judiciary Act so that Congress could pass legislation before any of us — Republican or Democrat — knew who would occupy the White House in 2025 and therefore nominate new federal judges. Coons said.
“The Senate did its part by unanimously passing the bill in August; the Republican-controlled House, however, waited for election results before moving the bill. As a result, the White House is now vetoing this bill.”
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House Speaker Mike Johnson accused Biden of politicizing the process. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Republicans have he accused Biden threatening to veto the bill — which he issued two days before the House voted on it — to avoid giving new roles to President-elect Trump.
“This important bill received broad bipartisan support when it passed the Senate unanimously in August because it directly addresses the urgent need to reduce the backlog in our federal courts and strengthen the efficiency of our justice system,” said Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La. , he pointed out in a press release after the proposed law was adopted at the beginning of this month.
“At the time, Democrats supported the bill – they thought Kamala Harris would win the presidential election. Now, however, the Biden-Harris administration has decided to issue a veto threat and Democrats have opposed this bill, standing in the way of progress, simply because of partisan politics .”
The Senate passed the bill weeks after Vice President Kamala Harris took Biden’s place as the Democratic nominee. (Will Oliver/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The bill would add 66 federal district judicial roles, staggering their creation over 10 years to prevent the benefit of new appointments for any given administration.
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At the time of the Senate’s passage, Democratic morale was high after Biden dropped out of the 2024 race and was replaced by Vice President Kamala Harris.
However, the Senate passed it unanimously, meaning no Republican opposed the bill’s progress.
