Today, we're talking about President Biden vetoing a bill to add federal judgeships.

The House Ethics Committee's report on former representative Matt Gates, a Christmas

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Who can add to Christmas?

The perfect motive is that God so loved the world.

The perfect gift is that he gave his only son.

The only requirement is to believe in him.

The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.

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President Biden is flexing his executive powers.

On Monday, he vetoed the Judges Act, a bipartisan bill to add

66 federal judges by 2035. It would have been the first major judiciary expansion since 1990.

Biden called the bill hastily put together and criticized House Republicans for passing

it only after the election, meaning Trump, not Harris, would appoint the first wave of new judges.

Judicial leaders criticized the veto, saying the courts need help.

Federal caseloads have jumped 346% since 2004, with about 80,000 cases pending.

Also on Monday, Biden commuted the sentences of 37 of the 40 federal death row inmates,

reducing their sentences to life without parole. Only three inmates, convicted of mass

killings, remain on death row.

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