Hochul included the bill in a package of 29 bills that she vetoed, all of which either created commissions or required the state to conduct studies. Altogether, the bills would have cost the state $24 ...

Despite national losses for the party, Connecticut Democrats have a historic super majority: 102-49 in the House and 25-11 in the Senate. For the first time, they have enough members in both chambers ...

President Joe Biden vetoed a bill that could have added more judges to local federal courtrooms. It had local and bipartisan ...

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A top ally of President Biden is "disappointed" after he vetoed a bill that would have increased the number of federal judges currently serving. Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., who served as a campaign ...

WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden on Dec 23 vetoed legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a once widely bipartisan measure that would have been the first ...

The president had threatened to veto the bill because he didn’t want to give the president-elect new appointment opportunities, according to one of the outgoing president’s closest allies.

The White House had said at the time that Biden would veto the bill. “The House of Representative's hurried action fails to resolve key questions in the legislation, especially regarding how the ...

The White House had said at the time that Biden would veto the bill. Get top local stories in Connecticut delivered to you every morning. >Sign up for NBC Connecticut's News Headlines newsletter.

Biden vetoes JUDGES Act, blocking judiciary expansion Once widely bipartisan bill would have allowed first major expansion in 34 years Republicans accuse Democrats of partisan politics over veto ...

But the outgoing Democratic president made good on a veto threat issued two days before the bill passed the Republican-led House of Representatives on Dec. 12 on a 236-173 vote. In a message to the ...