{"id":135952,"date":"2024-12-11T22:07:54","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:07:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135952"},"modified":"2024-12-11T22:07:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T15:07:54","slug":"biden-says-hell-veto-bill-that-would-let-trump-nominate-more-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135952","title":{"rendered":"Biden says he\u2019ll veto bill that would let Trump nominate more judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwphg9001m2cp81yc5ap66@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            President Joe Biden and key Democrats have come out against a once broadly bipartisan bill that would create 63 new permanent judgeships now that President-elect Donald Trump would be the one to fill 22 of them.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkuw00073b6m8heu6hir@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The White House <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/SAP-S4199.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said Tuesday that Biden would veto the bill<\/a> \u2013 passed unanimously by the Senate this summer and set for a House vote this week \u2013 that would add judgeships to the most overburdened federal courthouses in the country.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkuw00083b6m4mff1ogk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Judges across the ideological spectrum have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/08\/politics\/federal-judges-vacancies-backlog-congress\/index.html\">warned<\/a> that staffing shortages have created a major backlog in cases. The apparent collapse in support of legislation that would address the judicial shortfall shows how polarized the political environment around the judiciary has become has become, and how any measure that would expand the already-large imprint that Trump has made on the courts is deemed toxic to Democrats.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkuw00093b6m617gj3eu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The bill\u2019s Senate champions and outside supporters had hoped that the House would take up the bill before the election, when neither party would know which side would initially benefit from its passage. Democrats are now pointing to House GOP leadership\u2019s failure to do so as reason why they\u2019re reversing their support.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkuw000a3b6m2sooew1g@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cUnder this legislation, we all promised to give the next three unknown presidents a certain number of judges,\u201d New York Rep. Jerry Nadler, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, said at a House hearing on the bill Monday. \u201cBecause no one can tell the future we were all at an equal disadvantage, but for this deal to work, the bill had to be passed before Election Day.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkuw000b3b6mcn6gpt1r@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            House Republicans have said they would have taken up the bill regardless of who won last month, and that they were unable to vote on it before the election because work needed to be done for it and because of the must-pass legislation that was before Congress before the election as well.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkuw000c3b6mji4lzd67@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Rep. Darrell Issa, the California Republican who spearheaded the legislation, said Tuesday that the legislation was a \u201cdurable solution to a national judge shortage\u201d and was the product of the \u201cthe work of a national array of stakeholders over a number of years,\u201d ultimately earning \u201cthe support of a unanimous Senate and a strong bipartisan majority in the House.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkuw000d3b6maxsvj2r3@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThe Biden White House can veto this bill, but it can\u2019t stop a consensus idea whose time has come,\u201d he said in a statement to CNN.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000e3b6mbsutxdst@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Judges \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/08\/politics\/federal-judges-vacancies-backlog-congress\/index.html\">including in interviews with CNN<\/a> \u2013 have said that the judiciary faces a staffing crisis that is undermining litigants\u2019 right to speedy justice. The bill\u2019s architects used the recommendations of the Judicial Conference, the policymaking body of the judiciary, to decide which courthouses would get additional judges \u2013 all for trial courts \u2013 under the bill, the \u201cJudicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved Act\u201d or JUDGES Act.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000f3b6mwb2cwlre@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Fix the Court, a judicial transparency organization that is often on the opposing side of Republicans on issues concerning court ethics, is calling on the Biden White House to reverse its opposition, with its executive director Gabe Roth calling the veto threat \u201ca slap in the face to our overworked federal judges.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000g3b6m2tuq4jl6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            However, the left-leaning judicial advocacy Alliance for Justice praised Biden\u2019s veto threat, arguing that \u201cEvery chance to protect our courts over the next four years must be taken.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000h3b6m48lwduy2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Judicial Conference undertook a meticulous analysis to come up with its recommendations, while the bill\u2019s authors used the feedback from lawmakers to craft the staggered, 10-year roll out of the additional judges, so to cover three different presidential terms and five Congresses. In some of the overburdened courthouses targeted by the legislation, the median criminal case can take years to resolve.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000i3b6mvngg9aq8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Still, the White House , while also acknowledging the post-election timing of the House vote, claimed in its announcement that the judges were being \u201chastily\u201d added and that they were \u201cunnecessary to the efficient and effective administration of justice.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000j3b6ma1l4vxa1@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Senate Minority Leader<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/10\/politics\/mitch-mcconnell-fall\/index.html\"> Mitch McConnell<\/a> said in a speech shortly before the White House\u2019s announcement that it was \u201calmost inconceivable that a lame-duck president could consider vetoing such an obviously prudential step for any reason other than selfish spite.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000k3b6mtstozxow@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cLitigants across America deserve their day in court,\u201d McConnell said. \u201cAnd they deserve to know the federal judiciary has the bandwidth to carefully and thoroughly consider their cases.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000l3b6m27347fr5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            McConnell has led Republican efforts in the past to block Democratic nominees for existing court vacancies, including the blockade of President Barack Obama\u2019s 2016 Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland. The White House\u2019s announcement on Tuesday noted that some of the new openings the JUDGES Act would create were in states \u201cwhere senators have sought to hold open existing judicial vacancies.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000m3b6m53ibtzmr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cThose efforts to hold open vacancies suggest that concerns about judicial economy and caseload are not the true motivating force behind passage of this bill now,\u201d the White House said.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cm4iwrkux000n3b6m7fblxuqz@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Lawmakers may try to get the bill passed in the new Congress, but getting Democratic support may require delaying the first allocation of new judges until 2029, when White House control will be unknown.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/12\/10\/politics\/federal-judges-democrats-trump-legislation\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 President Joe Biden and key Democrats have come out against a once broadly bipartisan bill that would create 63 new permanent judgeships now that President-elect Donald Trump would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=135952\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}