Joe Biden used one weird trick to sabotage Donald Trump
Joe Biden is a lame duck President ending his term in disgrace.
But that doesn’t mean Biden still can’t cause trouble.
And now Joe Biden used one weird trick to sabotage Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is heading to Washington to drain the Swamp and shake things up.
From his cabinet nominees – Kash Patel, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard – to his proposed legislative agenda and executive orders, the establishment is on notice that a new sheriff is in town.
That terrifies the Left.
Over on MSNBC – where the audience is dwindling to the point where hosts are taking pay cuts – guest host Richard Lui asked left-wing analyst Matthew Dowd how Joe Biden could use his final days in office to set traps for Trump that would hamstring the ability of the 47th President to implement his agenda.
Lui mentioned Biden trying to take the federal death penalty off the table by commuting the death sentences of 37 out of 40 death row inmates.
“We’re talking of the commutations that came at the end of last week, but we had many bills signed by the president,” Lui began.
“What do you expect to see him do in the next three weeks of lasting effect?” Liu added.
Dowd agreed and said Biden would look for any chance to throw sand in the gears of the incoming Trump administration.
“I mean, I think what he’s trying to do is trying to corner Donald Trump and sort of box him in so he can do – I think the Biden administration and the president is trying to prevent Donald Trump from doing as much damage as he possibly can. Which he could do a lot after becoming president. But I think Joe Biden is trying to box him in on this,” Dowd stated.
Biden did just that by vetoing the bipartisan JUDGES Act, which has created 22 new judgeships to help ease the backlog of federal cases.
“The House of Representatives’ hurried action fails to resolve key questions in the legislation, especially regarding how the new judgeships are allocated,” Biden stated.
Joe Biden’s closest ally in the Senate – Delaware’s Chris Coons – was the lead cosponsor on the left of this legislation.
But Biden vetoed it out of spite, knowing it would give Donald Trump 22 more judicial vacancies to fill.
Coons expressed disappointment that Biden engaged in petty partisan politics instead of acting in the best interest of the nation.
“I am disappointed by this outcome, for my own state and for the federal judges throughout the country struggling under the burden of ever-higher caseloads. I’ve worked on this bill for years, and thanks to tireless bipartisan effort with Senator Young, it made it to the president’s desk. It’s highly unfortunate that it will not become law,” a statement from Coons read.
“Senator Young and I took pains to make this a nonpartisan process, structuring the JUDGES Act so that Congress could pass the bill before any of us – Republican or Democrat – knew who would occupy the White House in 2025 and therefore nominate the new federal judges,” Coons added.
Donald Trump’s number one achievement in his first term was remaking the federal judiciary.
And in one of his final acts in office, Joe Biden sought to prevent a repeat of Trump nominating as many conservative justices as possible.
