Inside Chuck Schumer's operation to block Trump's MAGA revolution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

68% : Come next year, Republicans will look to boost Trump's already considerable influence on the makeup of the federal judiciary in his second term.
57% : It marked the first time since Trump won the Nov. 5 election that a Democratic-appointed appellate judge had rescinded plans to take senior status, a form of semi-retirement for judges that creates vacancies presidents can fill.
56% : Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Biden announces huge Supreme Court overhaul and a constitutional amendment targeting Trump'When I became majority leader, I said, 'This is something we have to work on, we have to focus on.'
56% : Paying attention to the number of judges you get and the type of judges you put on the court is worth it.'Trump will inherit nearly three dozen judicial vacancies, but that number is expected to rise because of Republican-appointed judges who held off on retirement in hopes that a Republican would return to office and pick their replacements.
52% : 'Let me assure you, by January 20th of 2029, Trump will be bragging about getting 240 judges,' Grassley said.
51% : There also liberal judges who could face potential legal action after backing out of their retirement plans after Trump won in November.
48% : And he got one Supreme Court appointment compared with three for Trump.
32% : Schumer says he's only following the strategy put forth by George W. Bush's White HouseRepublican Senator from Iowa and incoming Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley said the Democrats had their priorities straight but says Donald Trump will confirm over 240 judgesAbout two-thirds of Biden's appointees are women and a solid majority of appointees are people of color.
31% : Read More Justice Sonia Sotomayor responds to calls to resign as liberals urge Biden to shore up Supreme CourtChuck Grassley, a Republican, and the next chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said Democrats showed newfound resolve on judicial confirmations.
29% : Schumer, who will remain Senate Minority Leader, offered a reason for optimism: the 235 federal judges Biden appointed during his term, one more than Trump.
26% : 'When we started out, we knew it would be a very difficult job to do more than Trump had done but we did,' Schumer said.
25% : Schumer claims that Trump and the Republican Party will try to get rid of Biden's record on 'everything.''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.
22% : As for Schumer, adding liberal judges is going to be a firewall against Trump repealing their policy accomplishments.
19% : Democrats are set to be largely shut out of power for the next two years, with special elections to replace Trump's Cabinet nominees their only shot at recovering any of the Senate , House and White HousePresident Joe Biden arrives to speak at the Department of Labor in WashingtonRarely a week went by in the current Congress when Schumer did not tee up votes on judicial confirmations as liberal groups urged Democrats to show the same kind of urgency on judges that Republicans exhibited under Trump.
14% : While Biden did get more district judges confirmed than Trump, he had fewer higher-tier circuit court appointments than Trump - 45 compared to 54 for Trump.

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