Biden vetoes the JUDGES act

[T]he Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act of 2024—a bill passed by bipartisan majorities of both chambers of Congress [-] would have created 63 new permanent judgeships (and three new temporary judgeships) in federal district courts across 13 different states, all of which have been found to have insufficient staffing to meet their current caseloads.

To avoid giving a huge boon to the next President, the bill staggered the new judgeships over the next decade. 11 would’ve come into effect on January 21, 2025; and then subsequent batches every two years on January 21. But President Biden vetoed it anyway.

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President Biden’s veto, which may succeed only in kicking this bill into the next Congress, sends the absolutely wrong message about court reform, i.e., that it is only worth doing when it also produces a short-term partisan political advantage.

  Steve Vladeck

Biden said it "hastily" creates new judgeships without addressing key questions about whether new judges were needed and how they would be allocated nationally.

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Hundreds of judges appointed by presidents of both parties took the rare step of publicly advocating for the bill.

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If the bill had been enacted, Trump would have been able to fill 22 permanent and three temporary judgeships over four years in office, on top of the 100-plus judicial appointments he is already expected to make.

  Reuters

I guess, 22 being more than 11, Joe disapproved?

He said the bill would also have created new judgeships in states where senators haven't filled existing judicial vacancies and that those efforts "suggest that concerns about judicial economy and caseload are not the true motivating force behind passage of this bill now.

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The Democratic-controlled Senate passed the measure unanimously in August. But the Republican-led House brought it to the floor only after Republican Donald Trump was reelected to a second term as president in November, adding the veneer of political gamesmanship to the process.

  

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.