President Joe Biden has vetoed bipartisan legislation that would have added dozens of new federal judge positions in the coming years. The president had threatened to veto the bill because he didn’t want to give the president-elect new appointment opportunities,

President Biden made good on his threat and vetoed a bipartisan bill Monday to add 66 new judges to federal courts that were seen as understaffed. Biden claimed the bill was “too hurried” in garnering congressional approval — but some observers said he was likely predominantly concerned about the appointments President-elect Donald Trump might be able to make to the posts once in office.

President Biden on Monday vetoed a bill that would have added 66 federal district judgeships over a span of more than a decade.

Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday vetoed legislation to add 66 new judges to understaffed federal courts nationally, a once widely bipartisan measure that lawmakers in his party began to abandon after Republican President-elect Donald Trump won the Nov.