On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill that seeks to expand the federal judiciary by creating dozens of new judgeships. This comes despite a veto threat from President Joe Biden, who issued a statement on Tuesday calling the expansion “unnecessary for the administration of justice.”
The legislation, known as the Judicial Understaffing Delays Getting Emergencies Solved (JUDGES) Act, previously passed the Senate by unanimous consent in August, aims to add 66 new district court judgeships, a request that originated from the federal judiciary itself to address existing judicial bottlenecks.
This would mark the first major increase in judgeships since 1990, aiming to streamline the judicial process, which has faced backlogs in several courts across the nation. The legislation aims to add new judges gradually over a decade to…
