President Joe Biden's judicial push hits roadblocks with GOP veto-power and Democratic Senate absences. Biden is pictured here at an event in Delaware  in 2022.
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President Joe Biden's judicial push hits roadblocks with GOP veto-power and Democratic Senate absences. Biden is pictured here at an event in Delaware in 2022.
Mandatory Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/FILE

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Biden judicial push hits roadblocks with GOP veto-power and Democratic absences

The remarkable pace with which President Joe Biden has sought to remake the federal bench has been put into jeopardy by dual threats: Democratic Senate absences and a Senate rule that gives Republicans the ability to veto district court nominees for courts in their home states.