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Outgoing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer highlighted Biden-appointed judges’ crucial role in safeguarding Biden’s legacy and opposing Trump’s agenda after the Republican “trifecta” victory.

Schumer highlighted Biden’s appointment of 235 federal judges, surpassing Trump’s first-term total, as part of a strategy to counterbalance the conservative judiciary built during Trump’s presidency.

He warned that Trump’s allies would use the courts to challenge Biden’s legislative achievements and advance a “MAGA” agenda targeting women’s rights, the environment, unions, and consumers.

The judiciary, Schumer stated, remains Democrats’ strongest defense.

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      22 days ago

      he’s actively helping them now as exemplified by the escalations in isreal and ukraine along with the anti-transgender bill.

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    Too bad nary a one was on the high court which can nullify any lower court’s decision they don’t like.

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    They have a judicial highway to a captured SCOTUS. Not a single other judge in the country matters in regards to rulings about government power. The Democrats had years to fix it and instead they gave the corporations more welfare.

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      17 days ago

      The best we’ll see is some delay until the appeal gets to the Supremes and Alito channels the voices of dead Founders to deliver a conclusion exactly the same as what the Heritage Foundation wants.

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        I can’t even find it in myself to make a sarcastic joke about Alito channeling the founding fathers for the heritage foundation. It’s just… Ugh.

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    Bullshit. That’s why these clowns are always judge shopping to get around the politicized judiciary that would stop their plans.

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    They’ll be about as useful as Schumer.

    If you intend to resist Trump’s misrule, don’t put your hopes in the Democratic Party. They’re not there to deliver change, they’re there to prevent progressives from holding power.