The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted in favor of legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a bill that outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden has threatened to veto after lawmakers only took up the measure after Republican President-elect Donald Trump won the election.
The Republican-led House voted 236-173 in favor of a bill the Democratic-led Senate passed earlier this year that would add new judges gradually over a decade to courthouses in 13 states in what would be the first major expansion of the federal judiciary since 1990.