Joe Biden – or, let’s be sincere, whoever is pulling his strings – is certainly trying to put up as many obstacles as possible under the novel Trump administration. In a way, this always happens when the party affiliation of the man at the Resolute Desk changes, but sometimes people get carried away. Some of us remember the childish crap that Clinton administration officials did when handing the keys to the White House to the novel Bush administration; For example, canceling all “W” keys on computer keyboards.
However, who is Joe Biden’s mastermind is causing more than just a few raised eyebrows. Presumptive President Biden’s veto of a bill to enhance the number of federal judges, which passed unanimously in the Senate, has at least one Democrat in the Senate expresses his disappointment.
A top ally of President Biden is “disappointed” afterward. He vetoed a bill that would have increased the number of federal judges currently in office.
Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who served as co-chair of Biden’s recent presidential campaigns, stressed that he and his Republican colleague Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., kept bipartisanship in mind when drafting the bill.
“I am disappointed in this outcome, both for my own state and for federal judges across the country who are struggling under the burden of ever-increasing caseloads. I have worked on this bill for years, and thanks to tireless bipartisan efforts with Senator Young, “It is extremely unfortunate that it will not become law,” Coons said in a statement Tuesday.
Of course, if Senator Coons (and Senator Young) truly believe this needs to be done, they can reintroduce it when the new Congress meets. But there is actually more to the veto.
Then he shifted the blame onto himself Republicans in the House of Representatives for the ultimate failure of the bill but for the vote on it after the 2024 election.
“Senator Young and I worked hard to make this a nonpartisan process by structuring the JUDGES Act so that Congress could pass the bill before any of us – Republican or Democrat – knew who in 2025 would occupy the White House and thus nominate the new federal judges,” said Coons.
“The Senate did its part by unanimously passing the bill in August; however, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives waited for election results before advancing the bill. Therefore, the White House is now vetoing this bill.”
Politics is now a sullied business, and at least that has been the case ever since Meletos of Athens accused Socrates of heresy and demanded the death penalty. Well, venerable Meletus himself was carried out in sequence by a repentant population of Athens that should serve as a cautionary tale to petty, vindictive politicians everywhere. In this case, however, House Republicans did what Republican voters would have wanted them to do, namely prevent the appointment of a significant portion of the federal judiciary by (shudder) Kamala “Queen of Word Salads” Harris.
This is partisan politics, and preventing such an eventuality is the only thing we can truly be grateful for to Mitch McConnell, and that is that Merrick Garland will never sit on the Supreme Court.
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Here’s where it gets compelling: Will Senator Coons reintroduce this bill now that we’re about to premiere Trump II, This Time It’s Personal? Will Senator Coons, a partisan Democrat, take a chance on Donald Trump appointing all of these novel federal judges?
It’s like I keep saying: principles or principles? Chris Coon’s actions in the next Congress will speak volumes about which of them he values.
