House passes bipartisan bill to add new judges that Biden has vowed to veto
The House passed a bipartisan bill that would create dozens of new judgeships but Donald Trump's election win turned Democrats against it and President Joe Biden has said he'll veto it.
WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill backed by the federal judiciary that would create dozens of new judgeships despite President Joe Biden's pledge to veto it.
The legislation has already passed the Senate with bipartisan support and was considered to be uncontroversial — until President-elect Donald Trump won the election last month.
House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark, of Massachusetts, sent a note before the vote Thursday urging colleagues to vote against the bill.
“While this bill attempts to provide a solution to our backlogged court system, House Democrats should remain clear-eyed on what authorizing a significant number of new, empty judgeships means under a future Trump Administration,” she wrote.
The bill passed the House on a 236-173 vote Thursday, with 29 Democrats voting in favor and two Republicans voting against. It passed the Senate by unanimous consent in August.
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