Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer just revealed his plan to stop President-elect Donald Trump from implementing his ambitious agenda to “Make America Great Again” that the electorate selected in the 2024 election.
He’ll see you in court, the mandate of the voters be damned.
Democrats have positioned a record number of federal judges as their last line of obstruction against Trump’s incoming administration, and Schumer revealed to Politico that their strategy was years in the making in case they lost the 2024 election.
“I don’t know exactly what [Trump will] do. But I can tell you this: The judiciary will be one of our strongest — if not our strongest — barrier against what he does,” Schumer told Politico in an exclusive interview.
The Biden administration used their narrow control of the U.S. Senate to confirm 235 judges — more than any president since Jimmy Carter — including 150 women judges.
Rather than selecting traditional prosecutors and lawyers, Democrats intentionally chose far-Left attorneys, “voting rights” experts, and union insiders to “resemble America.”
“We knew that getting more judges on the bench would help protect our legislative record,” Schumer said. “When I became majority leader, I said, ‘This is something we have to work on, we have to focus on.'”
The strategy mirrors Republican tactics under then-Senate Leader Mitch McConnell during Trump’s first term, when conservatives established a Supreme Court supermajority through controversial confirmations of justices.
“They’re going to come after everything,” Schumer claimed of Trump’s upcoming term. Voters overwhelmingly awarded Republicans the victory in the 2024 election — and Schumer vowed to stop their election mandate.
“They have so many different parts of MAGA: the people who are anti-women’s rights; the people who are anti-environment; the people who are anti-working people rights and union rights; the people who are anti-the consumer,” he claimed.
The Democrats intense judicial push intensified in 2023-24 as other options to undermine Trump dwindled under a Republican House.
“We also saw that the hard right was gearing up to use the bench in case after case to achieve their goals,” Schumer said.
With Republicans soon controlling both Congress and the White House, Democrats view their judicial appointments as crucial protection for Biden-era policies until at least the 2026 midterms.
When asked about outpacing Trump and McConnell’s confirmation numbers, Schumer quipped: “Hey, I’m from Brooklyn, what can I tell you?”