Summary

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.

  • FuglyDuck
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    276 months ago

    Too bad Biden wasn’t a bulwark against trump.

    • @eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      46 months ago

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

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      6 months ago

      There’s not much Biden can do that can’t be undone in the next administration. Especially since he wasn’t running for re-election. Should he have stepped aside sooner? Sure. But ultimately, if people didn’t want Trump, they should have voted for Harris. That was the true bulwark against him and the MAGA agenda…

      EDIT: Downvote all you want, but unpopularity for Harris doesn’t change the fact that it was a binary choice: Trump/Not Trump. (Not voting was also a vote for Trump) Our feelings about the Democratic Candidate don’t affect the reality…

      • FuglyDuck
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        66 months ago

        It took, what? Six months to get highly classified materials back?

        And that’s one hell of slam dunk trial. “We found these documents. In his bathroom. They’re TS/SCI. He had no need for them.”

        But nope. Apparently prosecution is political even if the dude is guilty as fuck. (Protip: not prosecuting when you normally would is also “political”)

  • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    156 months ago

    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.

  • teft
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    6 months ago

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

  • bruhbeans
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    66 months ago

    Dems have been so effective, I see no possible way this could fail