Hundreds of protesters are planning to rally outside of Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerCruz blocks amended resolution honoring Ginsburg over language about her dying wish Senate Democrats introduce legislation to probe politicization of pandemic response Schumer interrupted during live briefing by heckler: 'Stop lying to the people' MORE’s (D-N.Y.) office in Manhattan on Monday night to call for him to push Democrats to vote against President Trump Donald John TrumpBiden on Trump's refusal to commit to peaceful transfer of power: 'What country are we in?' Romney: 'Unthinkable and unacceptable' to not commit to peaceful transition of power Two Louisville police officers shot amid Breonna Taylor grand jury protests MORE’s Supreme Court nominee.

“Our goal is really to push Sen. Schumer to unite his caucus and oppose Trump’s nominee for the Supreme Court,” Liat Olenick, co-president of advocacy organization Indivisible Nation BK, told The Hill.

“That’s part of his role as the minority leader and we feel like there’s so much at stake with this nomination,” Olenick said. “This is an instance where we need a united Democratic front.”

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Several New York City chapters of Indivisible Nation, a national grass-roots organization that focuses on opposing Trump’s agenda, are organizing the protest.

Though Schumer’s office declined to comment on the rally, a spokesman said the senator will not be in his office during the 5:30 p.m. protest tonight. He will be in Washington, D.C.

Schumer has been facing considerable pressure from the left to fight hard against Trump’s nominee, whom the president will announce tonight.

Schumer has said repeatedly that his focus is pushing the two pro-abortion rights Republican senators, whose votes are key to confirming Trump’s nominee, to oppose any candidate who would overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion.

But the Indivisible chapters are calling for Schumer to do more.

They want him to fight to restore the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominations, which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Addison (Mitch) Mitchell McConnellFEC flags McConnell campaign over suspected accounting errors Poll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' MORE (R-Ky.) last year eliminated in favor of a simple majority threshold.

When McConnell enacted the new threshold, he made it possible for the narrow 52-48 Republican majority to nominate Trump’s first Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, to the bench.

“51 votes is not enough of a threshold for a position as important as a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court," Indivisible Harlem leader Josh Daniel said in a statement. “After obstructing President Obama’s moderate nominee Merrick Garland Merrick Brian GarlandPoll: 59 percent think president elected in November should name next Supreme Court justice Mark Kelly: Arizona Senate race winner should be sworn in 'promptly' Chief justice honors Ginsburg: 'When she spoke, people listened' MORE, Mitch McConnell eliminated the threshold in a partisan effort to consolidate power in the GOP.”

“Sen. Schumer should fight back and demand a restoration of the 60-vote threshold for Supreme Court nominees,” Daniel said.

Activists on the left are staging protests to resist Trump’s Supreme Court nominee across the U.S. tonight.

The country’s largest LGBTQ advocacy organization, Human Rights Campaign (HRC), is organizing a rally for 8:30 p.m. tonight, close to Trump’s announcement.

HRC is asking the Senate to hold the process until after the November 2018 elections, after which Democrats will likely hold more seats.

“Right now, the American people don't have a say in who that person will be — and they should,” HRC said in a statement. “That’s why we’re also calling on the Senate to hold the process until we’ve had an opportunity to vote this November.”